Strah pred sočutjem kot mediator odnosa med relacijskimi potrebami in osamljenostjo

Vencelj, Laura (author), Žvelc, Gregor (mentor)

Osamljenost je psihološki konstrukt, ki predstavlja znak socialne bolečine ob zaznavi razkoraka med posameznikovimi dejanskimi in želenimi odnosi. Osamljeni posamezniki imajo težave z doživljanjem čustev pripadnosti in navezanosti ter razvijejo disfunkcionalne relacijske sheme o sebi in drugih, ki vplivajo na zaznavanje kakovosti njihovih socialnih odnosov, socialno vedenje in razvoj strahov pred sočutjem. V sklopu magistrskega dela smo v presečni študiji na vzorcu 294 mladih na prehodu v odraslost (144 žensk, dve binarni in dve neopredeljeni osebi; M = 21,73, SD = 3,06) z vzročno mediacijsko analizo raziskali vlogo strahov pred sočutjem do drugih, do sebe in od drugih v pojasnjevanju vpliva zaznave kakovosti medosebnih odnosov, ki jo odražata skupna zadovoljenost relacijskih potreb in odnosna varnost, na osamljenost. Poleg tega smo s korelacijsko in regresijsko analizo preučili odnose med dimenzijami zadovoljenosti relacijskih potreb in navedenimi spremenljivkami. Ugotovili smo pomembno pozitivno povezanost dimenzij zadovoljenosti relacijskih potreb z odnosno varnostjo in pomembno negativno povezanost z osamljenostjo ter strahovi pred sočutjem. Nepomembna povezava se je pojavila med relacijsko potrebo po imetju vpliva in strahom pred sočutjem do drugih. Rezultati mediacijske analize so pokazali, da strahova pred sočutjem do sebe in od drugih delno pojasnita učinek odnosne varnosti na osamljenost. Strah pred sočutjem do sebe je delno pojasnil in strah pred sočutjem od drugih je popolnoma pojasnil učinek zadovoljenosti relacijskih potreb na osamljenost. Strah pred sočutjem do drugih se v odnosih ni pokazal kot mediator. Ugotovitve nakazujejo na pomembne povezave med zadovoljenostjo relacijskih potreb, odnosno varnostjo, strahovi in osamljenostjo ter pomen strahov pred sočutjem do sebe in od drugih kot mehanizmov, ki lahko pojasnita občutke osamljenosti. Izsledki so lahko v pomoč pri načrtovanju na osamljenost osredinjenih intervencij, ki bi se osredotočale na grajenje kakovostnih medosebnih odnosov preko spodbujanja zmožnosti za sočutje do sebe in prejemanja sočutja od drugih.

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: sočutje, strah, zadovoljevanje potreb, medosebni odnosi, osamljenost, prehod v odraslost
• Work type: Master's thesis/paper
• Typology: 2.09 - Master's Thesis
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Place of publishing: Ljubljana
• Publisher: [L. Vencelj]
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: 64 str.
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-163885
• UDC: 615.851(043.2)
• COBISS.SI-ID: 215032579
• Publication date in RUL: 14.10.2024

Secondary language

• Language: English
• Title: Fear of compassion as mediator of relationship between relational needs and loneliness

Abstract

Loneliness is a psychological construct that represents a sign of social pain when perceiving a discrepancy between an individual’s actual and desired relationships. Lonely individuals have difficulty experiencing feelings of attachment and belonging, and develop dysfunctional relationship schemes about themselves and others that affect the way they perceive the quality of their social relationships, social behaviour, and the development of fears of compassion. For the purpose of this master’s thesis, we conducted a cross-sectional study on a sample of 294 young people during their transition to adulthood (144 women, two binary and two undefined persons; M = 21.73, SD = 3.06), adopting a causal mediation analysis to investigate the role of fear of compassion for others, for oneself and from others in explaining the impact of perception of the quality of interpersonal relationships, reflected in total relational needs satisfaction and social safeness, on loneliness. In addition, based on a correlation and regression analysis, we explored relationships between the dimensions of relational needs satisfaction and the variables mentioned. We found a significant positive correlation between the dimensions of relational needs satisfaction with social safeness and a significant negative correlation with loneliness and fears of compassion. An insignificant connection emerged between the relational need for influence and the fear of compassion for others. Results of the mediation analysis showed that fears of compassion for oneself and from others partly explain the effect of social safeness on loneliness. Fear of compassion for oneself partly explained, and fear of compassion from others completely explained the effect of relational needs satisfaction on loneliness. Fear of compassion for others did not act as a mediator in these relationships. The findings suggest important connections between relational needs satisfaction, social safeness, fears and loneliness, and the importance of fears of compassion for oneself and from others as mechanisms that may explain feelings of loneliness. These results may help design loneliness-focused interventions that would focus on building quality interpersonal relationships by developing the ability to be compassionate with oneself and to feel compassion from others.

• Keywords: compassion, fear, need satisfaction, loneliness, emerging adulthood