| Language: | English | Abstract: | The purpose of this study was to examine the construct of self-consciousness and its relations to subjective well-being and momentary level of depressive symptomatology. Part of this research was also discovering possible gender differences in these characteristics among Slovenian military personnel. The research was conducted on 127 participants, out of whom 52 were female and 75 were male military personnel. Participants responded to The Self-Consciousness Scale (Fenigstein, Scheier and Buss, 1975), Reflection-Rumination Questionnaire (Trapnell in Campbell, 1999), Satisfaction with Life Scale (Diener, Emmons, Larsen and Griffin, 1985), Positive and Negative Affect Scale (Watson, Clark and Tellegen, 1988) and Center for Epidemiologic Studies of Depression Scale (Radloff, 1977). Results show that military women in comparison to military men have higher public self-consciousness, rumination and reflection. On the other hand military men report higher satisfaction with their life than women. Nevertheless, military women and men do not differ in terms of private self-consciousness, positive affect, negative affect and momentary level of depressive symptomatology. Results also indicate that rumination has negative associations with life satisfaction and positive with negative affect and depressive symptomatology. Outcomes show that reflection is positively correlated to both positive and negative affect and also to depressive symptomatology. Results suggest that there is a link between self-consciousness and some cognitive and emotional outcomes. This study represents an important contribution to the field of psychological characteristics of Slovenian military personnel, gender differences among them and relations of self-consciousness to other psychological characteristics. | Keywords: | self consciousness, subjective well being, depression, gender differences, Slovenia armed forces, Self consciousness scale (SCS), Reflection rummination questionnaire (RRQ), Positive and negative affect scheduele (PANAS), Satisfaction with life scale (SWLS), Center for epidemiologic studies depression scale (CES-D), bachelors theses |
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