Examination of University Students Emotion Regulation Skills in Terms of Attachment Styles and Self-Compassion

Özgür Kır; Zeliha Traş; Şahin Kesici

doi:10.51535/tell.1449653

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Examination of University Students Emotion Regulation Skills in Terms of Attachment Styles and Self-Compassion

Abstract

In this study, it was aimed to examine the emotion regulation skills of university students in terms of attachment styles and self-compassion. The participants of the study were determined using the appropriate sampling method. The participants consisted of a total of 414 university students, 230 (55.6%) of whom were female and 184 (44.4%) of whom were male. In order to collect the data, “Personal Information Form”, “Emotion Regulation Scale (DBL)”, “Experiences in Close Relationships II (CRI II)” and “Self-Compassion Scale” were used. SPSS 26.0 package program was used to analyze the data. In this analysis, Pearson product-moment correlation, multiple linear regression analysis and independent groups t-test methods were used. The findings of the study showed that emotion regulation skills have a positive and significant relationship with attachment styles and self-compassion. As a result of the regression analysis, it was concluded that the avoidant attachment sub-dimension of attachment styles and the consciousness sub-dimension of self-compassion significantly predicted the re-evaluation sub-dimension of emotion regulation skills. It was concluded that the consciousness and overidentification sub-dimensions of attachment styles and self-compassion significantly predicted the concealment sub-dimension of emotion regulation skills. It was determined that emotion regulation skills did not show a significant difference according to gender.

Keywords

Emotion Regulation Skills , Attachment Styles , Self-Compassion , University Students

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Özgür Kır
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Zeliha Traş ^*
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Şahin Kesici
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Kır, Ö., Traş, Z., & Kesici, Ş. (2024). Examination of University Students Emotion Regulation Skills in Terms of Attachment Styles and Self-Compassion. Journal of Teacher Education and Lifelong Learning, 6(1), 160-170. https://doi.org/10.51535/tell.1449653

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