Developmental awareness study on the effect of individualization on the relationship between the idealized mother role and the womanhood role created by the authentic self

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of individuation on the relationship between the idealized motherhood role and the womanhood role formed by the authentic self and to examine the effects of the developmental awareness study on individuation. For this porpose a mixed study was designed. 615 women were reached in the quantitative study. The data of the study were collected by Demographic Information Form, Maternal Ideologies Questionnaire, Authenticity Scale and Individuation Scale Short Form-Mother Form and the relationships between the variables were determined. According to the results, it was seen that self-confidence and fear of disappointing the parent, which are included as a sub-dimension in the individuation scale, have mediation effect in the relationship between idealization of motherhood and authentic self. Sessions were held with five participants with high maternal ideology and low authentic self-scores. At the end of the study, posttest was applied to the participants in the experimental group, and the obtained data were compared with the pretest scores. The data gathered from the qualitative study were evaluated with the Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis method. The findings of the quantitative and qualitative parts of the study were discussed together.