“MURDERING THE SELF”: MEDIATING ROLES OF NARCISSISM AND DEFENSE MECHANISMS BETWEEN THE OBJECT RELATIONS AND SUICIDE PROBABILITY RELATIONSHIP

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2025-2-13

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Özkul, Kemal

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Understanding the dynamics of suicide has always been a concern of psychoanalysis, although no systematic perspective has yet been presented. Freud's explanations for suicide were related to self-objectification and an attack on the ego in melancholic depression. The purpose of this study is investigating the mediating roles of narcissism and defense mechanisms between the object relations and suicide probability relationship. 362 individuals participated in this study. To assess suicide probability of the participants Suicide Probability Scale (Cull & Gill, 1988) was used. Moreover, Bell Object Relations and Reality Testing Inventory (Bell, 1995) was used to assess the object relations; The Hypersensitive Narcissism Scale (Hendin & Cheek, 1997) was used to assess narcissism of the participants. Moreover, the assessment of how the participants use defense mechanisms was done by using the Defense Style Questionnaire (Andrews et al., 1993). In order to investigate the serial mediation effects of narcissism and immature defense mechanisms on the association between object relations and suicide probability, Hayes’ PROCESS macro (Model 6) was implemented. The results of the mediation analyses revealed that there are both direct and indirect significant effects among the variables. The hierarchical regression analyses and mediation analyses results were discussed in the light of the theory and the existing literature.

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Suicide, the object relations, narcissism, defense mechanisms

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/113507

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis