Suppression effect of social awareness in the relationship between self-concealment and life satisfaction

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• Subjects: Tromso
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Abstract: The aim of the study was to investigate the suppression effect of social awareness in the self-concealment and adolescents' life satisfaction relationship. Data were collected with the Satisfaction with Life Scale, Social Awareness Scale which is a sub-scale of The Tromso Social Intelligence Scale, and Self-concealment Scale, which were completed by 368 adolescents who age range is 12-16. Regression analysis demonstrated that social awareness has a suppression effect in the self-concealment and life satisfaction relationship. Results showed that selfconcealment was negatively related to life satisfaction, but social awareness was positively related to both self-concealment and life satisfaction. The relationship between self-concealment and life satisfaction increases when social awareness was added to the regression analysis. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dr Eyüp Çelik is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Sciences of Sakarya University in Turkey now. He is interested in many aspects of psychology. To date, he has mainly worked on various topics related to the mental health of adolescents and married individuals, such as marital adjustment, married life satisfaction, sexuality, sensation seeking, adolescent and young life satisfaction, self-concealment, and career development. This perspective article, which describes the suppression effect of social awareness in the relationship between the self-concealment and the life satisfaction, belongs to the mental health of the adolescent. PUBLIC INTEREST STATEMENT The life satisfaction and social awareness positively affect the mental health, protect people from psychological distress. If adolescents have higher life satisfaction and social awareness level, they can have healthy development with less negative effect of this stormy period. The article describes some of the positive effects of social awareness and negative effects of self-concealment on the life satisfaction of adolescents. The present study revealed that the social awareness prevents ...