The relationship between the self-models and constraining mate selection beliefs of never married youth: An investigation on samples of Ankara, İstanbul, Şanlıurfa and Mardin

In this thesis, it is aimed to determine the relationship between constraining mate selection beliefs and self-models of single young people who have never married, and compare this relationship between Istanbul, Ankara and Sanliurfa, Mardin where individuals spentmost of their lives. The participants of the study consisted of 531 individuals between the ages of 18-27 who spent most of their lives in Istanbul, Ankara, Şanlıurfa and Mardin. The participants were divided into 290 women, 240 men in terms of gender and 188 Ankara, 122 Şanlıurfa, 117 Istanbul and 104 Mardin in the city where they spent most of their lives. In order to obtain information about the participants gender, city where they spend most of their lives, education level, education level of their parents and parental loss and divorce, 'Demographic Information Form' used; determine to constraining beliefs of participants RMSA scale used and also ARS used to determine participants self-models. According to the analyzes, there was a weak-negative relationship between constraining mate selection beliefs and autonomous self model and a weak positive relationship between relational self model. While gender variable had a significant effect (p≥0,05) on autonomous and relational self-models and RMSA's subscales which cohabitation, love is enough, ease of effort, opposites complement and complete assurance dimensions. On the contrary gender had not significant effect(p≤0,05) on constraining mate selection beliefs total scores and one and only true and idealization subscales. İn terms of the province where most of the life is spent, the only subdimension is idealization what don't founded the statistically significant effect; most of the relational self was in Mardin and the autonomous self was in Istanbul.There was no statistically significant result in cohabitation according to educational status, idealization according to mother education status, idealization and opposites complement according to father education status (p≤0.05).Significant results (p≥0.05) were obtained in all other sub-dimensions.