From security in family to security in community: How does security in community affect minority adolescents' adjustment problems?

Göz Çengelli B.

European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Vilniaus, Litvanya, 25 - 29 Ağustos 2025, ss.1, (Özet Bildiri)

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Özet Bildiri
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Vilniaus
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Litvanya
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1
  • İstanbul Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The Emotional Security Theory (EST), which has been tested for nearly three decades, initially extended the concept of trust from the caregiver-child relationship to include the impact of parental conflict. Later the EST was further expanded to encompass political violence, guided by Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory. Just as research has been conducted on armed conflict environments around the world, researchers should also examine whether there is a relationship between emotional insecurity and adjustment problems among minority adolescents from all around the world. Feeling insecure in the family due to marital conflict, as well as feeling insecure in the community due to political reasons, can lead adolescents to have adjustment problems. In light of the literature, the aim of this study is to measure the emotional security levels of minority adolescents in Turkey within the family and community and to investigate the role of perceptions of emotional security in both context on adolescents' behavioral outcomes, both separately and on an interaction basis. The participants of the study, who are included using purposive sampling method, consist of 30 adolescents from each minority groups in terms of ethnic and/or religious origin (Jews, Alevis and Armenians). Data is collected using the Security in the Interparental Subsystem Scale, the Security in Community Scale, the Social Safeness and Pleasure Scale, the Youth Self Report and a demographic form. Results are evaluated to understand relations between implicit political violence and adolescent adjustment from a social ecological perspective. This study is the first to investigate feelings of insecurity in the community among minority adolescents and aims to expand the scope of relevant theory. In addition, the current study is thought to attract attention in terms of its potential to increase the external validity of the theory.