The analysis of the impact of obsessive beliefs on happiness in emerging adulthood with demographic data

In this study, it was examined that the effection of the obsessive beliefs and demographic characteristic – such as gender, marital status, education status of parents, place of residence - on the level of happiness. In the study, differences in levels of happiness and obsessive beliefs according to demographic variables are also discussed. The universe of the study consist of students from the Iskenderun Technical University in the school year 2016-2017 and Hatay provincial health Directorate 112 emergency medical services personnel. "Oxford Happiness Scale" (OHS) was used to determine the level of happiness of the individuals who participated in the study. For demographic information, the Personal Information Form and the Obsessive Beliefs Scale (OBS) were used to determine the level of obsessive beliefs. Hatay Provincial Health Directorate selected as the sample and was reached to all young adult individuals working in Emergency Health Services and also it was worked with all the people that between the ages of 18-25 and who wanted to participate in the research. It was worked with Iskenderun Technical University Engineering Faculty and all the students who were in school at the time allowed by the University Rectorate and want to participate in the study and between the ages of 18-25. 281 people participated in the study, including 128 women and 153 men. With purpose of making statistical analysis; for sub-problems of the research, "Independent Samples T-Test" and "One Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)" were used. "Tukey HSD" test was used for where to find out where the significant difference originated in the variables where there are significant differences as a result of the analyzes made. The relationship between the variables of the study was measured by the "correlation coefficient". A weak negative correlation was found between happiness scores and obsessive beliefs scores. When the differences according to the gender factors were examined, men in the Excellence/Precision subscale had a higher score than the women and statistically a 'significant' result was obtained. When it is examined in terms of with whom they had spent the most time; a meaningful difference was found between those who spend the most 'alone' and those who spend most 'wife-lover'. In this study, no significant difference was found when we examined according to the variables of marital status, student and employee, living place, family structure, parents education level, number of siblings, number of children, with whom they live, income rate. Keywords: Happiness, obsessive belief, young adulthood.