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M.A. Thesis Abstract FormName of the Student : Ayfer DostProgram of Study : MA in Developmental PsychologyThesis Title : The relationship between self construals andlanguage for emotions in personal narratives of Turkish males and femalesAbstractThe present study investigates the relationship between individuals? selfconstruals conceptualized as autonomous-, related-, and autonomous-related selfand the language they use to talk about emotions, and about reference to selfversus others in narrations of important life events that they experienced. Fortymales and forty females whose ages range between 20 to 60 participated in thestudy. The results showed that self construals were related to the language used totalk about emotions such as the level of abstractness and objectification ofemotion terms and their relation to self and other in their referential context. Thepresent study also tested the assumption that sex differences observed inpsychological behaviors can be accounted for by self construals. However, thefindings indicated that Turkish males and females differed from each other only inthe number of emotion terms they mentioned when they were describingimportant life events, and that this relationship could not be accounted for by selfconstruals. For explorative purposes, the present study also investigated if therewere any age-related changes in the relationship between self construals and thelanguage for emotions. Results indicated that age was not related to any of the selfconstruals but only with mentioning of emotions having others as their primaryreferents. The findings were discussed in relation to previous research.Keywords: Self construals, gender, language used for emotions, age