The investigation of the relationship between self-critical rumination and psychological resilience in X and Y generation individuals in the context of perceived parental attitudes

The conducted study aimed to investigate the relationship between psychological resilience severity, self-critical rumination and perceived parental attitudes of the individuals born between 1965 and 1999, belonging to the X and Y generations. Factors that could manipulate the results were excluded. Data were collected both online and face-to-face. After considering exclusion criteria and ensuring distribution equality, the study proceeded with a total of 420 participants out of the initially recruited 668 individuals. Sociodemographic Information Form, the Percieved Parenting Attitudes-Child Form (S-EMBU for Children), the Brief Resilience Scale (BRS), and the Self-Critical Rumination Scale (SCRS) were used in the research. Data analyses were conducted using SPSS-23. Independent samples t-test and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were conducted to investigate psychological resilience severity, perceived parental attitudes, and self-critical rumination values according to sociodemographic information. Subsequent analyses involved Pearson correlation tests and regression analyses. For both of the generations, the results of the study revealed moderate and positive relationship between perceived maternal parental attitudes and self-critical rumination; low and negative relationship between perceived maternal parental attitudes and psychological resilience severity, moderate and negative relationship between self-critical rumination and psychological resilience severity, low and negative relationship between maternal emotional warmth and self-critical rumination, low and positive relationship between maternal emotional warmth and psychological resilience severity, moderate and positive relationship between maternal overprotection and self-critical rumination, moderate and positive relationship between maternal rejection and self-critical rumination, low and negative relationship between maternal rejection and psychological resilience severity, low and negative relationship between paternal rejection and psychological resilience severity. Generational differences were observed in some of the relationships such as the relationship between maternal overprotection and psychological resilience severity, emotional warmth and self-critical rumination, paternal emotional warmth and psychological resilience severity, paternal overprotection and self-critical rumination, and paternal rejection and self-critical rumination. Regression analyses identified predictive effects, and these effects varied across generations.