Fear of happiness, a psychological construct reflecting the belief that happiness might lead to misfortune, represents a significant barrier to well-being. This study examines the mediating roles of resilience, meaning in life, and perceived social support in the relationship between fear of happiness and psychological distress. A cross-sectional survey with 981 Turkish adults (mean age 23.93 years, 69.4% female) completed the self-reported measures of fear of happiness, resilience, meaning in life, perceived social support, and psychological distress. Results indicated that fear of happiness negatively predicted resilience, meaning in life, and social support while positively predicting psychological distress. Resilience, meaning in life, and perceived social support negatively predicted psychological distress. Mediation analyses revealed significant indirect effects of fear of happiness on psychological distress through resilience, meaning in life, and perceived social support. The findings suggest the importance of resilience, meaning in life, and social support as psychosocial factors in mitigating the adverse effects of fear of happiness on psychological health. These findings not only inform the design of targeted interventions aimed at reducing psychological distress but also highlight the value of strengthening internal and interpersonal resources to promote mental health, particularly in culturally relevant contexts.

The relationship between life satisfaction, empathy, resilience, and self-esteem has been investigated to a limited extent in developing countries, despite the existing literature on their effects on youth mental health. This study aimed to analyze the mediating role of resilience and self-esteem in the relationship between empathy and life satisfaction among adolescents in Türkiye. The study group comprised 292 Turkish youth aged 15–19 (59.25% female and 40.75% male). We adopted Pearson correlation analysis and PROCESS Macro Model 4 in regression analysis to explore the relationships among empathy, life satisfaction, resilience and self-esteem. The results showed that there were significant relationships between the study variables. Also, results show that resilience and self-esteem mediate the relationship between empathy and life satisfaction. These results provide specific theoretical support and guidance for investigating and enhancing life satisfaction among adolescents in Türkiye and highlight the importance of interventions to enhance empathy, increase psychological resilience, and support self-esteem.

Well-being literacy is a relatively new construct that refers to an individual’s capacity to intentionally use, understand, and communicate language

Volunteers are considerable human source in disasters. The stress, pressure and difficult conditions of disasters can lead to breaking of safety rules by employees, especially young people. Safety breakings may lead to stoppage or failure of the activities. This research focus on the young volunteers’ safety rule breaking behavior in disasters. Based on job demands-resources (JD-R) theory, data were gathered through semi-structured interviews from individuals working in the regions affected by the 6 February 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake. The research sample consisted of 17 young disaster volunteers between the ages of 18-26 who were eligible for criterion sampling. The data were analysed thematically, theory-oriented and deductively. As a result of the thematic analysis, 3 themes, namely job demands, job resources and breaking of safety rules, and 16 categories under these themes were discovered. Results implied that young volunteers use work resources against intense work demands. Although studies in the field of organisational safety suggest that job resources increase safe behaviour, this study indicates that the job resources of volunteers in disasters may increase breaking of safety rules.

The object of this study was to examine the predictability of challenges on professional self – efficacy belief in occupational safety specialists. Also, psychometrically valid and reliable professional self – efficacy belief scale for occupational safety specialists was developed within this study. 332 occupational safety specialists from private sectors participated to this study. After reliability and validity analysis, 7 items professional self – efficacy belief of occupational safety specialists scale was emerged. Regression analysis showed that insufficient awareness of employers which is a sub – dimension of main challenges and organizational challenges predicts the professional self-efficacy belief of occupational safety specialists.

The object of this study was to research the mediator role of professional self – efficacy belief between psychological safety and self – reported personal initaitive. Additionaly, self – reported personal initiative scale was adapted to Turkish. Firstly, pilot study was conducted to 100 occupational safety specialists to test psychometrics of self – reported personal initiative scale. Then, psychological safety, professional self – efficacy belief of occupational safety specialists and self – reported personal initiative scales were sent to occupational safety specialists with anonymous link. Similiar with pilot study, convenience method was used. Of 443 responses, 111 responses were disregarded because of the missing data and remaining 332 responses data was used for this study. According to correlation analysis results, there are significant relationships amongst psychological safety, professional self-efficacy belief and self-reported personal initiative. Regression analysis showed that professional self – efficacy belief has mediator role between psychological safety and self – reported personal initiative. Additionaly, psychometrics results of self - reported personal initiative showed that adapted scale was valid and reliable for Turkish sample. Keywords Psychological safety, self – efficacy belief, personal initiative, occupational safety