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The importance of attachment in individuals' development is enormous. The attachment patterns established with the first experiences are thought to affect our relationships and especially our mental state. In this study, it is aimed to examine the mediator effect of self-esteem and rejection sensitivity in the relationship between attachment, depression and anxiety. 340 university students are included in the study. Students' attachment patterns in close relationships are evaluated by Experiences in Close Relationships-Revised, depression and anxiety levels by Beck depression and Beck Anxiety Scales, rejection sensitivity by the Rejection Sensitivity Scale and self-esteem by Self-Esteem Scale. It was found that, as anxious attachment level increased, psychopathology symptoms and rejection sensitivity increased and self-esteem decreased. In addition, the mediator effect of self-esteem in the relationship between anxious attachment and psychopathology and the mediator effect of rejection sensitivity between anxious attachment and self-esteem could be mentioned. On the other hand, there was no significant relationship between avoiding attachment and psychopathology. The findings of the study show that there is a difference between anxious and avoidant attachment patterns and anxious attachment is associated with increased rejection sensitivity and susceptibility to depression and anxiety and decreased self-esteem.

The Dark Tetrad (narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sadism) provides a robust theoretical framework for understanding individuals’ behaviors, interpersonal relationships, and social adaptation. A review of the literature reveals that these personality traits have been most extensively investigated in three primary domains: workplace dynamics, social and romantic relationships, and violent behavior. The purpose of this review is to systematically examine the findings in these three areas and discuss them within a coherent theoretical context. Individuals exhibiting Dark Tetrad traits produce pronounced effects—typically with negative outcomes—both in their close relationships and across various levels of society. In particular, sadism emerges as the strongest predictor of counterproductive work behaviors such as bullying, harassment, and organizational deviance; when combined with psychopathy, it also becomes one of the most significant determinants of interpersonal physical and psychological violence. These traits lead to erosion of trust, manipulative tendencies, lack of empathy, and difficulties in forming emotional bonds, causing friendships and romantic relationships to become superficial and unsustainable. Furthermore, the explanatory power of the Dark Tetrad is increasingly evident in emerging problem areas such as online trolling, interference in others’ relationships, and sexually coercive behaviors. This review underscores the critical importance—at both individual and societal levels—of scientific efforts aimed at early detection of Dark Tetrad traits and prevention of their harmful consequences. It also highlights the need for future research to more thoroughly investigate the interactions among these traits, contextual moderators, and potential intervention strategies.

Self-psychology concept, developed by Heinz Kohut, is now seen as one of the most fundamental psychoanalytic theories. Kohut’s theory of self psychology and Bowlby’s attachment theory emphasizes the importance of early care giving relationship and how this has a profound effect on the development of a healthy sense of self and relationship in adulthood. In this study, it is aimed to explain the concept of self-object in self-psychology and attachment theory in detail. In this context, in order to examine the effects of self-object and attachment dimensions, the literature findings related to attachment and self-object with depression, anxiety and subjective well-being and the possible mediator effect of emotion regulation in these relationships were investigated. Suggestions were made for future research.

[...]the 1970s, this power brought by the order that generally resulted in physical violence was not questioned, but today domestic violence has been brought to the fore as a social problem and has become the subject of research. According to the results of Sugarman and Hotaling (1989), although the researches show different results, the rate of encountering violence in the university sample is approximately 30%, similar to marriage. The first one is based on the social learning theory (Bandura 1986) and suggests that adolescents learn to apply violence to their partners by observing the positive results of others' behavior (parents, friends, role models). Since the perpetrators are thought to be able to observe more positive results than the victims, this theory is mostly used to understand the perpetrators. According to another study, a positive correlation was found between the probability of committing violence or exposure to violence among young women and exposure to domestic violence (Choi and Temple 2016).

The dark sides of personality that are encountered in negative and unwanted ways in daily life are defined by the term Dark Triad, consisting of narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism. Subclinical narcissism is described as high status indul-gence, desire to be a leader, exaggerating its own qualities and underestimating others. In Machiavellianism, manipulating other people by hiding one's own negative characteristic and unethical behaviors in order to achieve their aims are important. Psychopathy is a negative subclinical personality trait characterized with high impulsivity and lack of empathy, tendency to be insensitive, not paying attention to human relations and not having remorse. Research shows that these conceptually different but empirically overlapping personality variables have an impact on different areas of a person's life. The aim of the article is to update and evaluate literature discussed the Dark Triad. In addition, it was thought that reviewing the scales which are aimed to measure the dark triad and adapted to Turkish might be useful for future studies. In this review article, the personality structures that make up the dark triad, the areas of influence and psychological measurement tools developed for are emphasized.

In a general sense, while the positive aspects of personality involve an affectionate and helpful orientation towards others, the dark side has a strong connection with socially disturbing outcomes and a negative correlation with life satisfaction. In other cases, these three structures exhibit distinctive behaviors: ego-stimulating behaviors are best predicted by narcissism; reckless and anti-social behaviors are best predicted by psychopathy; and the outcomes manifested by strategic direction are best predicted by Machiavellianism. Machiavellists are emotionally deprived, they hide their own weaknesses, and they highlight the powerlessness of the people around them (Wai and Tiliopoulos 2012). Since these individuals manipulate any situation for the sake of their own goals, they may exhibit unethical behavior in order to reach a certain position in their social lives (Kanten 2015). According to Karpman (1948), \"secondary psychopathy\" is a similar structure with similar maladaptive characteristics, such as tendencies towards lying, deception, indifference; in addition to these similarities, secondary psychopathy is considered more prone to manifesting symptoms of psychological confusion and emotional reactivity.

Dating violence, which is considered as a type of interpersonal violence, is defined as the use of physical, verbal or emotional violence to each other in the relationship and imposing social restrictions on their behavior. The aim of this article is to deter-mine the risk factors that increase the severity of dating violence, which is a common problem nowadays, to investigate its effects and the effectiveness of the protection programs. For this purpose, Google Scholar, PsycArticles and PsycInfo databases were searched. Research shows that dating violence is affected by many different risk factors such as alcohol use, past domestic violence and peer interactions. Although dating violence is seen in both sexes, it is seen that women are more victims than men. This may have negative physical, psychological and social effects such as anxiety, depression, suicide risk, substance and alcohol use, and low self-esteem. When the effectiveness of the programs developed to prevent dating violence and protect the victims were examined, significant differences were found between the intervention groups and the control groups.

Helicopter parenting is characterised as a parenting style that take too much care and intervention to their children, take decisions instead of them, solve the problems they face and try to be overprotective. There is a growing interest in the negative aspects of helicopter parenting. This type of parenting attitude is thought to affect psychological problems. The aim of this study is to investigate the mediating effect of impulsivity and inflated self-sense of self in the relationship between helicopter parenting and psychological symptoms. The sample of the study consists of 337 university students. Perceived helicopter parenting was evaluated by Perceived Helicopter Parenting Attitude Scale, psychological symptoms by Brief Symptom Inventory, impulsivity levels by Barratt Impulsivity Scale, and inflated sense of self levels by using the Inflated Sense of Self Scale. As the helicopter parenting level perceived from the mother increased, psychological symptoms, impulsivity and inflated sense of self increased. There was no relationship between helicopter parenting perceived from the father and other variables. In the relationship between mother-perceived helicopter parenting and psychological symptoms, the inflated self-sense of self and impulsivity have a mediating effect; it was also found that impulsivity has a partial mediating effect on the relationship between inflated sense of self and psychological symptoms. In addition, inflated self-sense of self has a full mediating effect in the relationship between impulsivity and mother-perceived helicopter parenting. The results of the study show that there is a difference between perceived helicopter parenting from mother and father. Perceived helicopter parenting is associated with an increase in psychological symptoms. In addition, in this relationship, helicopter parenting can affect psychological symptoms by causing an increase in impulsivity and inflated sense of self.

Heinz Kohut tarafından geliştirilen kendilik psikolojisi yaklaşımı, günümüzde en temel psikanalitik teorilerden biri olarak görülmektedir. Kohut’un kendilik kuramı ve Bowlby’nin bağlanma kuramı, bakım verenler ile kurulan ilişkinin önemi ve bunun sağlıklı bir kendilik duygusunun gelişimi ve yetişkinlik döneminde kurulacak ilişkiler üzerinde etkisi olacağı üzerinde durmaktadır. Bu araştırmada, kendilik psikolojisi içerisinde yer alan kendilik nesnesi kavramı ve bağlanma kuramının detaylı bir şekilde açıklanması hedeflenmiştir. Bu bağlamda kendilik nesnesi ve bağlanma boyutlarının etkilerini incelemek için bağlanma ve kendilik nesnesi ile depresyon, anksiyete ve öznel iyi oluş ilişkisi ve bu ilişkilerde duygu düzenlemenin olası aracı etkisine dair alanyazın incelenmiştir. İleride yapılacak araştırmalar için önerilerde bulunulmuştur. Self-psychology concept, developed by Heinz Kohut, is now seen as one of the most fundamental psychoanalytic theories. Kohut’s theory of self psychology and Bowlby’s attachment theory emphasizes the importance of early care giving relationship and how this has a profound effect on the development of a healthy sense of self and relationship in adulthood. In this study, it is aimed to explain the concept of self-object in self-psychology and attachment theory in detail. In this context, in order to examine the effects of self-object and attachment dimensions, the literature findings related to attachment and self-object with depression, anxiety and subjective well-being and the possible mediator effect of emotion regulation in these relationships were investigated. Suggestions were made for future research.

Self-psychology concept, developed by Heinz Kohut, is now seen as one of the most fundamental psychoanalytic theories. Kohut's theory of self psychology and Bowlby's attachment theory emphasizes the importance of early care giving relationship and how this has a profound effect on the development of a healthy sense of self and relationship in adulthood. In this study, it is aimed to explain the concept of self-object in self-psychology and attachment theory in detail. In this context, in order to examine the effects of self-object and attachment dimensions, the literature findings related to attachment and self-object with depression, anxiety and subjective well-being and the possible mediator effect of emotion regulation in these relationships were investigated. Suggestions were made for future research.