Abstract:
This study examined factors contributing for adolescents’ emotion Regulation in
secondary schools of Harari Regional State. The study pursued a correlational
research design where two standardized tests (Family Adaptability and Cohesion
Evaluation Scale IV and Emotion Regulation for Adolescents) are employed to
measure family cohesion and adolescents’ emotion regulation. For this propose,
data were collected from 311 grade nine and ten students using stratified random
sampling technique from the total secondary school in Harari Regional State. Both
descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. The analysis
employed SPSS version 20 to calculate Pearson Correlation Coefficient, one way
ANOVA, two-way ANOVA and multiple regression .The Pearson correlation results
indicated that family cohesion is very important variable in determining adolescents’
emotion regulation. Results of the one way ANOVA also showed that adolescents’
emotion regulation differ as a result of their parent’s educational level. In addition,
the two-way ANOVA indicated that adolescents’ emotion regulation changed as a
function of the combined effects of family structure and gender. The multiple
regressions revealed that, family cohesion added significant value to the prediction
of emotion regulation. Generally, it can be concluded that gender, family structure,
family cohesion and parent’s educational level contribute to adolescent’s emotion
regulation. Finally, the findings of this particular study would lead to a
recommendation were made for Harari secondary school administrators, parents,
government should create awareness, training for parents and school directors
related to adolescents emotion regulation and students themselves. That government,
school administrators, teachers, parents, researchers should give due emphasis to
emotion regulation. School personnel's and counselors should give due emphasis to
adolescent’s emotion regulation and should act accordingly as this is the key for
holistic development of adolescents
