Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among gender roles, attachment styles, and self-compassion in undergraduates. Participants were 199 undergraduates with mean age of 20.32±.01 years old. Instruments were (1) Gender Roles Inventory (GRI) (2) Experiences in Close RelationshipsRelationship Structures Questionnaire (ECR-RS) (3) Self-Compassion Scale Short Form (SCS-SF). Pearsons product moment correlation and multiple regression analyses were used to analyse the data. Finding revealed that masculinity and femininity were significantly and positive correlated with self-compassion is .22 and .185, p < .01, respectively. While anxious attachment and avoidant attachment were significantly and negatively correlated with self-compassion is -.318 and -.346, p < .01, respectively. Masculinity, femininity, anxious attachment and avoidant attachment significantly predicted self-compassion and accounted for 23.2 percent of the total variance (R2 = .232, p < .001). Anxious attachment significantly predicted of self-compassion (β = -.31, p < .001). Also, avoidant attachment significantly predicted of self-compassion (β = -.30, p < .001). While masculinity was not a significant predictor of self-compassion (β = .06, p = .375). Also, femininity was not a significant predictor (β = .09, p = .244).