The correlation between irrational beliefs which are about basic psychological needs and feeling status and goals

In our research, it was aimed to investigate irrational beliefs about the basic psychological needs of adolescents' feeling status and goal levels and whether they relate to some demographic characteristics. The sample of the research consists of total of 348 secondary school students including 188 girls and 160 boys who are studying in Istanbul, Çatalca. For the research permission of the Provincial Directorate of National Education and student's parents was obtained. Three different scales were implied to students. These were: Rational Affective Self-Determination Scale, PANAS (Positive and Negative Affect Schedue), Meaning and Purpose of Life Scale, Demographic Form and Personal Information Form. The data obtained in the study were analyzed using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) Windows 22.0 program. T-test and mann whitney u test were used to compare quantitative continuous data between two independent groups. One Way Anova and Kruskall Wallis test were used to compare quantitative continuous data among more than two independent groups. Test choices were determined by examining whether variables are consistent with normal distribution or not. Among the continuous variables of the study Spearmen Correlation and Multiple Linear Regration Analysis were conducted. Key Words: Basic Psychological Needs, İrrational Beliefs, Positive and Negative Emotion, Purposes, Adolescence, Relatedness, Autonomy, Competence.