Emotional RegulationNCT06849310
Emotional Management in Adolescents
A study testing Group that will receive emotional regulation training in people with Emotional Regulation and Examining the Emotion Regulation Effectiveness to be Given to Adolescents, run by Ankara Medipol University at 1 site in Turkey (Türkiye).
Trial summary
This study aims to give information about the content of the school-based emotion regulation program study designed for adolescent children to develop their emotion regulation skills. The study is a randomized controlled trial with adolescents aged 14-16 years (9th and 10th grade). Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 14 to 16 yearsHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Emotional Regulation, Examining the Emotion Regulation Effectiveness to be Given to Adolescents
- What is being tested?
- Group that will receive emotional regulation training
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 80 participants
- Where
- 1 siteTurkey (Türkiye)
- Study dates
- 10 Mar 2025to 7 Apr 2025
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 14 to 16 years
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Child
Who may be able to join
- . Criteria for inclusion in the research;
- continuing their education in the 9th-10th grade,
- agreeing to participate in the study,
- giving written consent to participate in the study by their parents,
- stating that they can participate in the four-week program,
- speaking Turkish.
Who cannot join
- The criteria for exclusion from the study were:
- the student has a medically diagnosed mental problem that will prevent the student from following the program,
- the student has a psychological medical diagnosis, and
- he/she is receiving psychiatric medication or therapy.
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
Turkey (Türkiye)1 site
Ankara Medipol Üniversity
Ankara, Ankara, 06050
About this study
Official title: Intervention Protocol: Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Emotion Regulation Program for Adolescents
This study aims to give information about the content of the school-based emotion regulation program study designed for adolescent children to develop their emotion regulation skills. The study is a randomized controlled trial with adolescents aged 14-16 years (9th and 10th grade). Two high schools were selected for the research in Ankara, Türkiye. A face-to-face formal training consisting of four modules of four weeks (50 min/week). Based on the Vibrational Energy Theory, the program will be applied to the intervention group to be selected by the randomization method. The training topics include recognizing and accepting emotions, directed thinking and process orientation, and acceptance and willingness (reinforcement module) modules. With this intervention, adolescents' emotion regulation skills and psychological well-being are expected to increase, and anxiety levels will decrease. The program to be implemented will contribute to the acquiring and developing emotion regulation skills that deal with processes such as awareness, control, management, and acceptance of emotions in adolescents.
Key Words: adolescence, emotion, regulation, school
- Conditions
- Emotional Regulation, Examining the Emotion Regulation Effectiveness to be Given to Adolescents
- Being tested
- Group that will receive emotional regulation training
- Keywords
- adolescence, emotion, regulation, school
- Medical subject headings
- Emotional Regulation
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Group that will receive emotional regulation trainingBehavioural
The content of the program is based on the current literature (Dennison, 2024; Holmqvist Larsson et al., 2020; Kara \& Yüksel, 2022; Kılıçarslan \& Varol, 2023; Siegel \& Brayson, 2021; Vafaei et al., 2021) for four weeks, once a week (average 50 minutes/week). The module on noticing emotions, which will be applied in the first week, is aimed at adolescents to think about and notice emotions. The content of the training will include determining the beliefs and effects of the group members about emotions, teaching the nature of all emotions and the function of adaptation, distinguishing between emotions and thoughts, teaching similar and opposite emotions, and situations that contribute to the positivity of the emotional state.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| Participants who will receive emotion regulation training. | Experimental | This study was planned as a randomized controlled trial. The 9th and 10th grades of two high schools with the same status in the capital of Türkiye will constitute the sample of the research.Adolescents will be randomized as an intervention and control group after stratification according to the mean score of the scale, gender (girls/boys), and grades (9th and 10th grades). Letters will be given to the intervention and control groups. According to the coin toss method, the letter A will be given to the initiative group and the letter B will be given to the control group. Randomization will be performed by a statistician independent of the research using the www.randomizer.org site. Adolescents will not be informed that they will be an intervention or control group. Criteria for inclusion in the research; (a) continuing their education in the 9th-10th grade, (b) agreeing to participate in the study, (c) giving written consent to participate in the study by their parents, (d) stating t Receives: Behavioral: Group that will receive emotional regulation training |
| Participants who will receive no intervention | No intervention | All forms will be administered to adolescents in the control group twice, before and after the program (except for the descriptive characteristic data form). After the study is completed, the control group will be given the same training and written material. |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
The Regulation of Emotions Questionnaire- REQ
The Regulation of Emotions Questionnaire (REQ) was developed by Phillips and Power (2007) to determine adolescents' emotion regulation methods. The scale consists of a total of 18 items and 4 sub-dimensions, including 5 Likert types (1 = Never, 5 = Always). Lower dimensions are classified as internal functional emotion regulation (4 items), internal dysfunctional emotion regulation (5 items), extrinsic functional emotion regulation (4 items), and extrinsic dysfunctional emotion regulation (5 items). The scale does not give a total score, scoring is done on the basis of sub-dimensions. As the scores obtained from the sub-dimensions increase, the frequency of the adolescent's emotion regulation method increases according to that sub-dimension, and as the score decreases, the rate of using that method decreases. There are no items that are scored backward. The reliability coefficients for the original study were .72 for intrinsic functional emotion regulation, .76 for dysfunctional emoti
Measured: 1 mounth
The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI)
This scale was developed in 1970 by Spielberger et al. to measure the level of State and Trait Anxiety. The scale is used to determine how the individual feels in a certain condition and in a certain area. The scale can be applied to individuals aged 14 and over. The scale consists of two separate sub-scales, 20 of which were developed to measure state and 20 of which were developed to measure trait anxiety, consisting of a total of 40 items of Likert type. In this study, the State Anxiety Scale will be used. The feelings or behaviors specified in the State Anxiety Scale items are answered by choosing one of the options: 1: none, 2: somewhat, 3: a lot, and 4: completely, depending on the severity of such experiences (Spielberg et al., 1971). There are two types of expressions in the scale. These are either inverted or direct statements. Inverted statements express positive emotions, while direct expressions express negative emotions. Scoring on the State Anxiety Scale varies between
Measured: 1 mounth
The Stirling Children's Well-being Scale (SCWBS)
It is a 5-point Likert model developed by Liddle and Carter (2015) to measure the emotional and psychological well-being levels of children aged 8-15 and rated between "Never (1) and Always (5)" consisting of 12 question items. There is no inverse matter on the scale. The highest score that can be achieved on the scale is 60, while the lowest score is 12. High scores obtained from the scale indicate that children's emotional and psychological well-being levels are high. In the original study, the internal consistency reliability coefficient of the scale was found to be .85 (Liddle \& Carter, 2015). The scale was adapted into Turkish by Akın et al. in 2016. It was applied to primary, secondary, and high school students between the ages of 9-16. In the confirmatory factor analysis conducted for the adaptation studies to Turkish, it was seen that the one-dimensional model was well adapted. The Cronbach-Alpha internal consistency coefficient calculated within the scope of this study was fo
Measured: 1 mounth
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted27 Feb 2025
- Study start10 Mar 2025
- Primary completion7 Apr 2025
- Study completion7 Apr 2025
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for Emotional RegulationStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Supportive care
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Model description
- This study was planned as a randomized controlled trial. The 9th and 10th grades of two high schools with the same status in the capital of Türkiye will constitute the sample of the research. Students in one high school will form an intervention group of 40 people, and students in the other high school will form a control group of 40 people. The emotion management program will be applied to the intervention group, and after the program is completed, the control group will be given information about the subject from an ethical point of view and a program booklet. The 40 children in the initiative group will be divided into groups. There will be an average of 13-14 people in each group. A 4-week intervention program will be applied to each group, 50 minutes per week.
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 80 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- Ankara Medipol University
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- Gazi University
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, Merve Oral, Ankara Medipol University
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT06849310
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- E-14588481-605.99-101274183
- Status last verified
- Aug 2025
- First submitted
- 8 Feb 2025
- Last updated
- 29 Aug 2025
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- Yes
- FDA-regulated drug
- No
- FDA-regulated device
- No
- Individual data sharing
- Undecided
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 29 Aug 2025. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Intervention Protocol: Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Emotion Regulation Program for Adolescents
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT06849310
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- E-14588481-605.99-101274183
- Conditions
- Emotional Regulation, Examining the Emotion Regulation Effectiveness to be Given to Adolescents
- Keywords
- adolescence, emotion, regulation, school
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 80 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- Ankara Medipol UniversityUniversity, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- Gazi University
- Study start
- 10 Mar 2025 (actual)
- Primary completion
- 7 Apr 2025 (actual)
- Study completion
- 7 Apr 2025 (actual)
- First posted
- 27 Feb 2025 (actual)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
This study aims to give information about the content of the school-based emotion regulation program study designed for adolescent children to develop their emotion regulation skills. The study is a randomized controlled trial with adolescents aged 14-16 years (9th and 10th grade). Two high schools were selected for the research in Ankara, Türkiye. A face-to-face formal training consisting of four modules of four weeks (50 min/week). Based on the Vibrational Energy Theory, the program will be applied to the intervention group to be selected by the randomization method. The training topics include recognizing and accepting emotions, directed thinking and process orientation, and acceptance and willingness (reinforcement module) modules. With this intervention, adolescents' emotion regulation skills and psychological well-being are expected to increase, and anxiety levels will decrease. The program to be implemented will contribute to the acquiring and developing emotion regulation skills that deal with processes such as awareness, control, management, and acceptance of emotions in adolescents.
Key Words: adolescence, emotion, regulation, school
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Supportive care
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Number of arms
- 2
- Model description
- This study was planned as a randomized controlled trial. The 9th and 10th grades of two high schools with the same status in the capital of Türkiye will constitute the sample of the research. Students in one high school will form an intervention group of 40 people, and students in the other high school will form a control group of 40 people. The emotion management program will be applied to the intervention group, and after the program is completed, the control group will be given information about the subject from an ethical point of view and a program booklet. The 40 children in the initiative group will be divided into groups. There will be an average of 13-14 people in each group. A 4-week intervention program will be applied to each group, 50 minutes per week.
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| Participants who will receive emotion regulation training. | Experimental | Behavioral: Group that will receive emotional regulation trainingThis study was planned as a randomized controlled trial. The 9th and 10th grades of two high schools with the same status in the capital of Türkiye will constitute the sample of the research.Adolescents will be randomized as an intervention and control group after stratification according to the mean score of the scale, gender (girls/boys), and grades (9th and 10th grades). Letters will be given to the intervention and control groups. According to the coin toss method, the letter A will be given to the initiative group and the letter B will be given to the control group. Randomization will be performed by a statistician independent of the research using the www.randomizer.org site. Adolescents will not be informed that they will be an intervention or control group. Criteria for inclusion in the research; (a) continuing their education in the 9th-10th grade, (b) agreeing to participate in the study, (c) giving written consent to participate in the study by their parents, (d) stating t |
| Participants who will receive no intervention | No intervention | –All forms will be administered to adolescents in the control group twice, before and after the program (except for the descriptive characteristic data form). After the study is completed, the control group will be given the same training and written material. |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 14 to 16 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Child
Key inclusion criteria (6 listed)
- . Criteria for inclusion in the research;
Key exclusion criteria (4 listed)
- The criteria for exclusion from the study were:
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| Group that will receive emotional regulation trainingThe content of the program is based on the current literature (Dennison, 2024; Holmqvist Larsson et al., 2020; Kara \& Yüksel, 2022; Kılıçarslan \& Varol, 2023; Siegel \& Brayson, 2021; Vafaei et al., 2021) for four weeks, once a week (average 50 minutes/week). The module on noticing emotions, which will be applied in the first week, is aimed at adolescents to think about and notice emotions. The content of the training will include determining the beliefs and effects of the group members about emotions, teaching the nature of all emotions and the function of adaptation, distinguishing between emotions and thoughts, teaching similar and opposite emotions, and situations that contribute to the positivity of the emotional state. | Behavioural | Participants who will receive emotion regulation training. |
Primary outcome
The Regulation of Emotions Questionnaire- REQ
Time frame: 1 mounth
The Regulation of Emotions Questionnaire (REQ) was developed by Phillips and Power (2007) to determine adolescents' emotion regulation methods. The scale consists of a total of 18 items and 4 sub-dimensions, including 5 Likert types (1 = Never, 5 = Always). Lower dimensions are classified as internal functional emotion regulation (4 items), internal dysfunctional emotion regulation (5 items), extrinsic functional emotion regulation (4 items), and extrinsic dysfunctional emotion regulation (5 items). The scale does not give a total score, scoring is done on the basis of sub-dimensions. As the scores obtained from the sub-dimensions increase, the frequency of the adolescent's emotion regulation method increases according to that sub-dimension, and as the score decreases, the rate of using that method decreases. There are no items that are scored backward. The reliability coefficients for the original study were .72 for intrinsic functional emotion regulation, .76 for dysfunctional emoti
The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI)
Time frame: 1 mounth
This scale was developed in 1970 by Spielberger et al. to measure the level of State and Trait Anxiety. The scale is used to determine how the individual feels in a certain condition and in a certain area. The scale can be applied to individuals aged 14 and over. The scale consists of two separate sub-scales, 20 of which were developed to measure state and 20 of which were developed to measure trait anxiety, consisting of a total of 40 items of Likert type. In this study, the State Anxiety Scale will be used. The feelings or behaviors specified in the State Anxiety Scale items are answered by choosing one of the options: 1: none, 2: somewhat, 3: a lot, and 4: completely, depending on the severity of such experiences (Spielberg et al., 1971). There are two types of expressions in the scale. These are either inverted or direct statements. Inverted statements express positive emotions, while direct expressions express negative emotions. Scoring on the State Anxiety Scale varies between
The Stirling Children's Well-being Scale (SCWBS)
Time frame: 1 mounth
It is a 5-point Likert model developed by Liddle and Carter (2015) to measure the emotional and psychological well-being levels of children aged 8-15 and rated between "Never (1) and Always (5)" consisting of 12 question items. There is no inverse matter on the scale. The highest score that can be achieved on the scale is 60, while the lowest score is 12. High scores obtained from the scale indicate that children's emotional and psychological well-being levels are high. In the original study, the internal consistency reliability coefficient of the scale was found to be .85 (Liddle \& Carter, 2015). The scale was adapted into Turkish by Akın et al. in 2016. It was applied to primary, secondary, and high school students between the ages of 9-16. In the confirmatory factor analysis conducted for the adaptation studies to Turkish, it was seen that the one-dimensional model was well adapted. The Cronbach-Alpha internal consistency coefficient calculated within the scope of this study was fo
Results and safety
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 29 Aug 2025.
- Related InfoLink provided by the sponsor.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: Undecided
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
The record lists no contact. Use the official record to reach the sponsor.
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Group that will receive emotional regulation training in people with Emotional Regulation and Examining the Emotion Regulation Effectiveness to be Given to Adolescents, run by Ankara Medipol University at 1 site in Turkey (Türkiye).
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 6 inclusion and 4 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 29 Aug 2025. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in Turkey (Türkiye). Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
The Regulation of Emotions Questionnaire- REQ (time frame: 1 mounth). The study lists 3 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 29 Aug 2025.