THE ROLE OF BLAME, SELF-COMPASSION, AND SEXISM ON WELLBEING AFTER BREAK-UP

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2023-10-4

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Daştan, Gizem

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Break-ups can be very stressful and often impact one’s subjective well-being. There might be various social psychological variables that may affect well-being after breakups. The purpose of the thesis is to examine the association between blame, selfcompassion, and sexism on well-being after a break-up and the moderating effect of self-compassion on self-blame and well-being relation. Participants of this study were heterosexual individuals who experienced break-up at least once in their lifetime. 296 participants composed of 232 women and 63 men (Mage = 23.34; SD = 4.83) completed the demographic information form, PANAS, Life Satisfaction Scale, Self-Compassion Scale, and Ambivalent Sexism Inventory. Regression analysis showed that self-blame negatively predicts positive affect and positively predicts negative affect and selfcompassion positively predicts life satisfaction, positive affect and negatively predicts negative affect. Also, partner blame positively predicts negative affect. However, benevolent and hostile sexism was not found to be significantly predict by any of the subjective well-being components. Self-compassion did not moderate the relation between self-blame and subjective well-being. This thesis’s result supports the importance of blame and self-compassion on subjective well-being after relationship dissolution. Future studies should extend this research by balancing the gender distribution, and studies with different cultures and non-heterosexual people. These results also can be used for practical purposes and for creating interventions.

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Blame, Self-Compassion, Ambivalent Sexism, Subjective Well-being, Break-up

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/105488

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis