Silencing the Self Scale

Jack, Dana Crowley

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“…However, when these efforts are neither recognized nor reciprocated, women may experience negative affect. Consistent with this theory, a body of cross-sectional research supports a link between self-silencing and depression among women (Duarte & Thompson, 1999; Gratch, Bassett, & Attra, 1995; Harper, Dickson & Welsh, 2006; Jack & Dill, 1992; Little, Welsh, Darling & Holmes, 2011). Other work suggests that when self-silencing and self-sacrificing for relationships are driven by fear of rejection and avoidance motives, self-sacrifice predicts negative affect, conflict, and less relationship satisfaction (Impett, Gable & Peplau, 2005).…”

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“…This is one of the premises of the work of Jack and Dill (1992) exploring self-silencing and depression, and in the writings of Karen Horney (1937) on neurotic dependency. These bodies of work describe how women, in particular, are likely to give up or silence valued aspects of their selves for their relationships, suppressing the goals, values and feelings that might put them in conflict with a partner.…”

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“…She further observed that people would silence themselves to meet the perceived expectations of the source of approval and to prevent rejection. Decades later, Jack and Dill (1992), proposed that women are socialized to self-silence, i.e., to suppress their thoughts and feelings in relationships as a way of nourishing those relationships, in part because women have historically been given lower status than their male partners. However, when these efforts are neither recognized nor reciprocated, women may experience negative affect.…”

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“…While these efforts emerge as part of broader self-presentation strategies, they can be costly when they entail silencing a valued self-aspect. Silencing the self for the sake of relationships is a relational schema that is acquired through socialization (Jack, 1991) and is predictive of internalized negative affect, particularly among women (Duarte & Thompson, 1999; Harper, Dickson & Welsh, 2006; Jack & Dill, 1992). We propose that self-silencing accommodations should also have implications for how people respond to interpersonal rejection from people whose acceptance they value.…”

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“…Specifically, those who have silenced the self to establish a relationship will respond with hostility and anger to a greater degree than those who have not self-silenced in the same way, reflecting the relatively greater cost they have incurred. Because women are more likely to be socialized to use self-silencing to build and maintain relationships (Jack & Dill, 1992), the hostility displayed by women after interpersonal rejection may be moderated by the relatively greater efforts that they have made in order to attract those who ultimately reject them. Thus, the process linking self-silencing accommodations and post-rejection hostility is most likely to emerge among women.…”

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After all I have done for you: Self-silencing accommodations fuel women's post-rejection hostility

Romero‐Canyas

Reddy

Rodriguez

et al. 2013

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

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An experimental study tests if people's hostility after experiencing rejection is partly explained by the degree to which they had initially suppressed their own feelings and beliefs to please the source of rejection. This hypothesis emerges from the literatures on women's self-silencing and that on rejection-sensitivity, which has documented that rejection-sensitive women show strong responses to rejection, but are also likely to self-silence to please their partners. An online dating paradigm examined if this self-silencing drives post-rejection hostility among women. Participants were given the opportunity to read about a potential dating partner before meeting that person, and were randomly assigned to one of 3 experimental conditions that resulted in rejection from the potential date or from another dater. Self-silencing was captured as the suppression of tastes and opinions that clashed with those of the prospective partner. Self-silencing moderated the effect of rejection on hostility: Self-silencing to the prospective partner was associated with greater post-rejection hostility among women, but not men. Self-silencing to someone other than the rejecter was not predictive of hostility. Women's dispositional rejection-sensitivity predicted greater hostility after rejection, and self-silencing mediated this association. Efforts to secure acceptance through accommodation may help explain the paradoxical tendency of some people to show strong rejection-induced hostility toward those whose acceptance they have sought.

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Section: Self-silencing Accommodations As Relationship-building Effortsmentioning

confidence: 89%

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confidence: 99%

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Parental antecedents of adult codependency

Crothers

Warren

1996

J. Clin. Psychol.

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Two aspects of codependency were investigated among 442 undergraduates. First, parental antecedents were examined by subjects completing measures of codependency, perceived parental dysfunctions (compulsivity, chemical dependency, and codependency), and parental styles (coercion, control, and non-nurturance). As expected, correlations between adult codependency and parental coercion, control, non-nurturance, and maternal compulsivity were significant. However, correlations between codependency and parental chemical dependency were not significant. A multiple regression analysis identified parental codependency and maternal coercion as significant predictors of subject codependency. To examine the second aspect of codependency, which assumes that codependency was identified over 40 years ago by Karen Horney, subjects completed a loss of self measure which correlated highly with codependency.

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Feminism, Femininity, and Negative Embodiment: A Contemporary Meta-Analytic Test

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Murnen,

Nolen

et al. 2024

Sex Roles

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Previous work has examined the relations between feminism, feminine gender roles, and body image concerns with inconclusive findings. The purpose of this study was to conduct an updated meta-analysis of the relation between feminist identity and negative embodiment, and to conduct new analyses to test how endorsement of femininity relates to negative embodiment. Through the technique of meta-analysis, we analyzed 80 studies (87 samples, N = 24,308) and 217 effect sizes to examine these associations. The predictor variables were measures of feminist identity and endorsement of femininity. The negative embodiment criterion variables were measures of body dissatisfaction, self-objectification, internalization of cultural body ideals, and disordered eating attitudes. Feminist identity was found to be negatively associated with negative embodiment, but only modestly, with small but significant effect sizes across most variables. Endorsement of femininity was found to be positively associated with negative embodiment, with mostly significant effect sizes ranging from small to large. These findings underscore the importance of considering the roles of feminist identity and traditional gender ideology in the etiology and prevention of women’s experiences of negative embodiment.

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Silencing the Self Scale

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After all I have done for you: Self-silencing accommodations fuel women's post-rejection hostility

After all I have done for you: Self-silencing accommodations fuel women's post-rejection hostility

Parental antecedents of adult codependency

Feminism, Femininity, and Negative Embodiment: A Contemporary Meta-Analytic Test

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