WOMEN’S MULTIPLE SOCIAL IDENTITIES AND WELL-BEING: A STUDY FOCUSING ON IDENTITY IMPORTANCE, SELF-EFFICACY AND SOCIAL SUPPORT

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2023-8-25

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Bozkurt, Dilber

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It is widely known that women have multiple social identities in most cultures, and they are responsible for fulfilling the requirements of these identities to the extent that they internalize their identities. Hence, managing plural identities is expected to affect their well-being. Many scholars in this area advocate "the more the merrier" approach for estimating the impact of having multiple identities on well-being. However, previous studies emphasized the importance of these identities to individuals rather than their quantity. In the light of past findings, the current thesis aimed to find an answer to this dichotomy by investigating whether the number or the importance of women’s social identities predict their well-being among a sample from Türkiye. In addition, potential mediating roles of self-efficacy and (perceived) social support in this context were questioned. Also, in order to get more elaborate information about the most common social identities the sample had, exploratory analyses for three common identities were run. The analyses were done with 448 women participants above 18-year-old, who were recruited through snowball sampling. Obtained results demonstrated that having multiple identities didn’t predict well-being, whereas having important identities did. For the mediating role of self-efficacy and social support, analyses yielded different results presented in the thesis in detail. Moreover, exploratory analyses provided that each identity can have different natures and yield different outcomes in the same context. All findings were discussed based on the relevant literature. At the end, strengths and limitations of the study, and suggestions for future research were addressed.

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Multiple Identities, Well-Being, Identity Importance, Self-Efficacy, Social Support

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/105086

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis