Examining psychological resilience of adolescents who experienced parental loss

This research aims to investigate the psychological resilience of adolescents who have experienced the loss of a parent in terms of academic self-efficacy, perceived social support and regulation of emotions.There are a total of 167 participants and all participants are students from secondary and highschools in Izmir that are administered by Ministry of Education. It was required to select students who experienced a parental loss. Data collection tools that were used in this research were Ego-Resilience Scale, Academic Self-Efficacy Scale, Perceived Social Support Scale-R, Regulation of Emotions Questionnaire for Adolescents, and Personal Information Form. The data was analyzed by multiple regression analysis.According to the results of this research, academic self-efficacy and internal-functional and external-functional emotion regulation were found to be the meaningful predictors of the psychological resilience of adolescents with a parental loss while perceived social support was not found to be as a meaningful predictor. Research results were discussed in the light of theliterature. Key Words: Parental Loss, Psychological Resilience, Academic Self-Efficacy, Perceived Social Support, Emotion Regulation, Adolescent.