The effect of psychoeducation program prepared on high school students' emotion regulation skills and conscious awareness levels

This study aims to investigate the effect of psycho-education program on emotion regulation skills and conscious awareness levels of high school students. The research is an experimental study based on pre - test, post - test and follow - up test model with experimental and control groups. The study group of the survey consists of a total of 30 students, 15 of whom are in the experimental group and 15 of them are in the control group, in the second semester of 2018-2019 academic year. Within the scope of the survey, 12 sessions psycho-education program was applied to the experimental group and no intervention was made to the control group. The data of the study were obtained by using the Emotional Regulation Difficulty Scale (Gratz and Roemer, 2004), Conscious Awareness Scale (Brown and Ryan, 2003) and Psycho-education Program Evaluation Form (Deniz, 2017). In analysis of the data, two-way variance was used for repetitive measurements. As a result of the research, it was seen that the psycho-education program significantly increased the emotion regulation skills of the participants in the experimental group and this difference was also preserved in monitoring measurement. Besides, the conscicous awareness of the participants in the experimental group went up considerably with the effect of the program implemented and this discrepancy was maintained in the monitoring measurement. Keywords: Emotion Regulation, Conscious Awareness, Psycho-education Program