A Look on the Rumination Tendency in terms of Learned Passivity: Predictive Roles of the Perceived Protective and Authoritarian Parental Attitudes and Traditional Gender Role Perceptions

The aim of this study was to examine the predictive power of protective and authoritarian parental attitudes and traditional gender role perceptions in young adults' rumination tendencies. The study group consisted of 513 university students, 397 of whom were women and 116 were men, Ruminative Thought Style Questionnaire, Parental Attitude Scale, Socialization of Gender Norms Scale and Demographic Information Form were used as data collection tools in the research. According to the findings, it was found that rumination tendency of women was significantly higher than that of men. Perceived protective and authoritarian parental attitudes and traditional gender role perceptions explained 17% of the variance in rumination tendency in women. On the men, perceived protective parental attitudes and traditional gender role perceptions created significant regression model and explained 10% of the variance in the rumination tendency. The findings were discussed in the light of the related literature and some suggestions were presented on the basis of limitations.