Nebi Sümer
Biographic Data
| ID | 82888 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nebi Sümer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nebi |
| FAMILY NAME | Sümer |
| SIGNATURE | SÜMER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sabancı Üniversitesi |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7460-4515 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 113 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Gendered Negotiations of Unemployment. A Qualitative Interview Study With Turkish Fathers in Germany and Türkiye
This qualitative study examines how unemployed Turkish fathers in Germany and Türkiye navigate their paternal identities amidst shifting gender roles and socioeconomic challenges. Based on 21 in-depth interviews, four distinct masculinity types were identified: disappointed, religious, playful, and stay-at-home fatherhood. These identity patterns transcend national borders and socioeconomic status, suggesting a transnational cultural continuity a…
Effects of Paternal Unemployment on Family Dynamics and Well‐Being: A Systematic Review
Hegemonic masculinity theory suggests that unemployment undermines fathers' social identity and well‐being, given the association between masculinity, paid employment, and breadwinning. This systematic review of 74 studies published between 1980 and 2024 examined six domains on the effects of paternal unemployment: psychological and physical well‐being, children's academic and cognitive outcomes, fertility, parental involvement and caregiving, ge…
Uncovering parental ethnotheories in Türkiye: Parental beliefs and practices linkage
Parental ethnotheories delineate culturally shared beliefs about the nature of children and normative parenting in a particular cultural niche. Using a sequential mixed-methods design, we assessed parental ethnotheories in a non-White, educated, industrialized, rich, and developed cultural context of Türkiye and developed a parental beliefs scale (PBS) with a culturally informed emic approach in two studies. Study 1 relied on semistructured inter…
Buffering and ambiguity effects of maternal warmth on associations between psychological control and child attachment in a cross-national perspective
Although warmth and psychological control are core parenting dimensions, their combined effect on child attachment is not well recognized, yet needed to understand complex parenting processes that may lead to the development of attachment security and insecurity in childhood. Results of previous studies support two mechanisms. Firstly, the buffering model reveals that parental warmth mitigates the negative effects of maternal psychological contro…
Behavioral but Not Psychological Control Predicts Self-Regulation, Adjustment Problems and Academic Self-Efficacy Among Early Adolescents
Prior work has documented that parental psychological and behavioral control have varying impacts on self-regulation skills and social-academic outcomes in early adolescence, with effects differing across cultures. The present study explores the role of psychological and behavioral control in predicting adjustment difficulties and academic self-confidence through self-regulatory skills among early adolescents in Turkiye using data from mothers an…
A contextualized emotion perception assessment relates to personal and social well-being
To-date, empirical support for the relationship between Emotion Recognition Accuracy and well-being has been very limited. • A Contextualized assessment of ERA −the Assessment of Contextualized Emotion (ACE)- was found to be a consistent predictor of personal and social well-being. • ACE’s influence on well-being was partially mediated by the quality of social interactions. • These findings deepen our understanding of ERA’s role in social functio…
Cultural Correlates of Adult Attachment Dimensions: Comparing the US and Turkey
Mainstream attachment literature has chiefly employed WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic) samples, yet cross-cultural studies investigating attachment dynamics outside of Western world corroborated universality of the basic tenets of attachment theory and normativity of attachment security. Importantly, these studies revealed country-level differences in the prevalence of insecure attachment tendencies. Of note, this li…
The role of attachment orientations in capitalization and mattering among married couples
Why do some perceive a partner's response as heartening while others interpret the same response as demoralizing? This study examined how attachment anxiety and avoidance influence perceived partner responses toward capitalization attempts (PRCA) and perceived mattering (PM) among married couples ( N = 103 dyads). Dyadic analyses delineating the actor and partner effects revealed that wives' attachment avoidance predicted own PRCA, PM, and their …
Predictors of rumination and co-rumination: The role of attachment dimensions, self-compassion and self-esteem
Behavioral Reactions to Job Insecurity Climate Perceptions: Exit, Voice, Loyalty, and Neglect
Past work has extensively documented that job insecurity predicts various work- and health-related outcomes. However, limited research has focused on the potential consequences of perceived job insecurity climate. Our objective was to investigate how the psychological climate about losing a job and valuable job features (quantitative and qualitative job insecurity climate, respectively) relate to employees' exit, voice, loyalty, and neglect behav…
Is distanced mothering a neglectful or normative parenting strategy? Evidence from three countries
Distanced and intensive mothering constitute the opposite ends of parenting. Unlike intensive parenting, distanced parenting has attracted less attention from researchers, though it is not uncommon. Distanced parenting has been used interchangeably with disengaged parenting, which is treated as a mild form of parental neglect based on low warmth and control. Yet, it also may be used intentionally as a culturally fostered parenting strategy. The c…
Socioeconomic Disadvantage as a Risk Factor for Attachment Insecurity: The Moderating Role of Gender
Although socioeconomic conditions are crucial predictors of adult attachment, the relationships between attachment patterns and distinct dimensions of socioeconomic disadvantage, reflecting its structure as a multi-faceted social construct, remain largely unexplored. Moreover, the overwhelming majority of the previous studies utilized samples from Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD) societies, so little is known about …
Testing the Compatibility of Attachment Anxiety and Avoidance with Cultural Self-Construals
Insecure attachment has been associated with relatively more negative outcomes in mainstream attachment literature, yet several empirical studies show almost half of the populations globally are insecurely attached. Moreover, although attachment security is the universal norm, attachment anxiety and avoidance exhibit significant cultural variation. To explore how this variation can offer certain advantages to people with insecure attachment tende…
System‐based emotions in Turkey and support for versus opposition to the Gezi Park protests
Research on system justification theory has found that ideological justification of the status quo is associated with increased positive emotion and decreased negative emotion and, consequently, a lack of support for system‐challenging protest. However, almost all of this research has been conducted in “WEIRD” (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) countries. Here we investigated the role of system‐level emotions in mediating the n…
Differences Across Generations and Stability of Values in the Turbulence of Social Change in Turkey
The cognitive cost of closeness: Interpersonal closeness reduces accuracy and slows down decision‐making
Interpersonal closeness increases the overlap between mental representations of the self and the other, thus rendering it more difficult to differentiate between self‐ and other‐related information. We suggest that closeness challenges computational capacity during decision‐making when the decision requires a differentiation between self‐ and other‐related information. Correlational Study 1 showed that when participants imagined engaging in a two…
Subjective status and perceived legitimacy across countries
The relationships between subjective status and perceived legitimacy are important for understanding the extent to which people with low status are complicit in their oppression. We use novel data from 66 samples and 30 countries ( N = 12,788) and find that people with higher status see the social system as more legitimate than those with lower status, but there is variation across people and countries. The association between subjective status a…
Factors Influencing Children's Appraisals of Interparental Conflict: The Role of Parent-Child Relationship Quality
The cognitive contextual model proposes that children's appraisals of interparental conflict (IPC) can influence their adjustment. In addition, previous research revealed that interparental disputes may reflect on parent-child relationship that is linked with children's self-blame and threat appraisals concerning IPC. However, there is a scarcity of research directly addressing the intervening role of the parent-child relationship on children's a…
Intergenerational Transmission of Work Values in Czech Republic, Spain, and Turkey: Parent-Child Similarity and the Moderating Role of Parenting Behaviors
Although public debates emphasize a weakening of work values and ethics over the last few decades, little attention has been paid to the transmission of work values between parents and children. It is still unclear what kind of parental behavior is critical and if culture influences the intergenerational transmission of work values. Based on socialization and value transmission theories, we explore the question by comparing three countries with d…
Close Relationships and Happiness across Cultures
Intergenerational Transmission of Work Values: A Meta-Analytic Review
Perceived economic self-sufficiency: A country- and generation-comparative approach
Existing datasets provided by statistical agencies (e.g. Eurostat) show that the economic and financial crisis that unfolded in 2008 significantly impacted the lives and livelihoods of young people across Europe. Taking these official statistics as a starting point, the collaborative research project “Cultural Pathways to Economic Self-Sufficiency and Entrepreneurship in Europe” (CUPESSE) generated new survey data on the economic and social situa…
Attachment (in)security and threat priming influence signal detection performance
This study examined whether the subliminal priming of threat and attachment figure availability interfere with cognitive attentional performance in conditions of uncertainty among individuals with differing attachment orientations. University students ( N = 225) first completed a scale to identify names of their significant attachment figures (WHOTO) and self-report measures of attachment anxiety and avoidance and were then administered a compute…
Are avoidant wives and anxious husbands unhappy in a collectivist context? Dyadic associations in established marriages
We examined culturally relevant gender differences in the attachment dimensions and their dyadic associations with relationship functioning using a large sample (N = 1228). Considering that attachment avoidance is culturally incongruent with Turkish culture and there exist a sharp gender role difference in marriage, we anticipated that avoidance for women and anxiety for men would be strong dyadic predictors of satisfaction and conflict among mar…
A Comparison of Human Values Among Students From Postcommunist Turkic Republics and Turkey
This study aims to compare the value structure of university students from postcommunist Turkic republics and Turkey within the framework of Schwartz and Bardi’s (1997) acclimation and compensation hypothesis. Participants from four Turkic republics ( N = 269; Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan) and Turkey ( N = 286) completed the Portrait Values Questionnaire. The results indicated that students from postcommunist countries rep…
Patterns and Universals of Adult Romantic Attachment Across 62 Cultural Regions: Are Models of Self and of Other Pancultural Constructs
As part of the International Sexuality Description Project, a total of 17,804 participants from 62 cultural regions completedthe RelationshipQuestionnaire(RQ), a self-reportmeasure of adult romanticattachment. Correlational analyses within each culture suggested that the Model of Self and the Model of Other scales of the RQ were psychometrically valid within most cultures. Contrary to expectations, the Model of Self and Model of Other dimensions …
Self-reported romantic attachment style predicts everyday maternal caregiving behavior at home
Perceived economic self-sufficiency: A country- and generation-comparative approach
Existing datasets provided by statistical agencies (e.g. Eurostat) show that the economic and financial crisis that unfolded in 2008 significantly impacted the lives and livelihoods of young people across Europe. Taking these official statistics as a starting point, the collaborative research project “Cultural Pathways to Economic Self-Sufficiency and Entrepreneurship in Europe” (CUPESSE) generated new survey data on the economic and social situa…
Subjective status and perceived legitimacy across countries
The relationships between subjective status and perceived legitimacy are important for understanding the extent to which people with low status are complicit in their oppression. We use novel data from 66 samples and 30 countries ( N = 12,788) and find that people with higher status see the social system as more legitimate than those with lower status, but there is variation across people and countries. The association between subjective status a…
Are avoidant wives and anxious husbands unhappy in a collectivist context? Dyadic associations in established marriages
We examined culturally relevant gender differences in the attachment dimensions and their dyadic associations with relationship functioning using a large sample (N = 1228). Considering that attachment avoidance is culturally incongruent with Turkish culture and there exist a sharp gender role difference in marriage, we anticipated that avoidance for women and anxiety for men would be strong dyadic predictors of satisfaction and conflict among mar…
Predicting friendship quality with rejection sensitivity and attachment security
We examined the interplay between friends' rejection sensitivity (RS) and attachment security in predicting friendship quality. Three competing hypotheses were tested concerning friendship quality, the unique effects of attachment anxiety, avoidance, and RS, as well as the moderating and mediating effects of RS. Results from emerging adults in Turkey ( N = 407) revealed that unlike attachment anxiety and avoidance, RS had neither a unique nor a m…
Mental models of attachment and coping with abortion
This study explored the relationships between mental models of attachment and adjustment to abortion in 408 women undergoing a 1st-trimester abortion at a large free-standing abortion clinic. As expected, mental models of attachment were related to postabortion distress and positive well-being. These relationships were mediated by feelings of self-efficacy for coping with abortion, perceived support from a woman's male partner, and perceived conf…
Cultural Correlates of Adult Attachment Dimensions: Comparing the US and Turkey
Mainstream attachment literature has chiefly employed WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic) samples, yet cross-cultural studies investigating attachment dynamics outside of Western world corroborated universality of the basic tenets of attachment theory and normativity of attachment security. Importantly, these studies revealed country-level differences in the prevalence of insecure attachment tendencies. Of note, this li…
The role of attachment orientations in capitalization and mattering among married couples
Why do some perceive a partner's response as heartening while others interpret the same response as demoralizing? This study examined how attachment anxiety and avoidance influence perceived partner responses toward capitalization attempts (PRCA) and perceived mattering (PM) among married couples ( N = 103 dyads). Dyadic analyses delineating the actor and partner effects revealed that wives' attachment avoidance predicted own PRCA, PM, and their …
System‐based emotions in Turkey and support for versus opposition to the Gezi Park protests
Research on system justification theory has found that ideological justification of the status quo is associated with increased positive emotion and decreased negative emotion and, consequently, a lack of support for system‐challenging protest. However, almost all of this research has been conducted in “WEIRD” (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) countries. Here we investigated the role of system‐level emotions in mediating the n…
Attachment (in)security and threat priming influence signal detection performance
This study examined whether the subliminal priming of threat and attachment figure availability interfere with cognitive attentional performance in conditions of uncertainty among individuals with differing attachment orientations. University students ( N = 225) first completed a scale to identify names of their significant attachment figures (WHOTO) and self-report measures of attachment anxiety and avoidance and were then administered a compute…
A Comparison of Human Values Among Students From Postcommunist Turkic Republics and Turkey
This study aims to compare the value structure of university students from postcommunist Turkic republics and Turkey within the framework of Schwartz and Bardi’s (1997) acclimation and compensation hypothesis. Participants from four Turkic republics ( N = 269; Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan) and Turkey ( N = 286) completed the Portrait Values Questionnaire. The results indicated that students from postcommunist countries rep…
Mental models of attachment and coping with abortion
This study explored the relationships between mental models of attachment and adjustment to abortion in 408 women undergoing a 1st-trimester abortion at a large free-standing abortion clinic. As expected, mental models of attachment were related to postabortion distress and positive well-being. These relationships were mediated by feelings of self-efficacy for coping with abortion, perceived support from a woman's male partner, and perceived conf…
The impact of adult attachment on partner and self‐attributions and relationship quality
This study tested the relationships between mental the models of attachment, the attributions romantic couples make for their own and their partners' behaviors, and relationship quality. Participants ( n = 352) who were currently involved in a romantic relationship completed multiple measures of attachment, attributions, and relationship quality. Results revealed that secure people reported less maladaptive attributions than insecure people. In a…
Patterns and Universals of Adult Romantic Attachment Across 62 Cultural Regions: Are Models of Self and of Other Pancultural Constructs
As part of the International Sexuality Description Project, a total of 17,804 participants from 62 cultural regions completedthe RelationshipQuestionnaire(RQ), a self-reportmeasure of adult romanticattachment. Correlational analyses within each culture suggested that the Model of Self and the Model of Other scales of the RQ were psychometrically valid within most cultures. Contrary to expectations, the Model of Self and Model of Other dimensions …
Self-reported romantic attachment style predicts everyday maternal caregiving behavior at home
Predicting friendship quality with rejection sensitivity and attachment security
We examined the interplay between friends' rejection sensitivity (RS) and attachment security in predicting friendship quality. Three competing hypotheses were tested concerning friendship quality, the unique effects of attachment anxiety, avoidance, and RS, as well as the moderating and mediating effects of RS. Results from emerging adults in Turkey ( N = 407) revealed that unlike attachment anxiety and avoidance, RS had neither a unique nor a m…
A Comparison of Human Values Among Students From Postcommunist Turkic Republics and Turkey
This study aims to compare the value structure of university students from postcommunist Turkic republics and Turkey within the framework of Schwartz and Bardi’s (1997) acclimation and compensation hypothesis. Participants from four Turkic republics ( N = 269; Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan) and Turkey ( N = 286) completed the Portrait Values Questionnaire. The results indicated that students from postcommunist countries rep…
Are avoidant wives and anxious husbands unhappy in a collectivist context? Dyadic associations in established marriages
We examined culturally relevant gender differences in the attachment dimensions and their dyadic associations with relationship functioning using a large sample (N = 1228). Considering that attachment avoidance is culturally incongruent with Turkish culture and there exist a sharp gender role difference in marriage, we anticipated that avoidance for women and anxiety for men would be strong dyadic predictors of satisfaction and conflict among mar…
Close Relationships and Happiness across Cultures
Intergenerational Transmission of Work Values: A Meta-Analytic Review
Perceived economic self-sufficiency: A country- and generation-comparative approach
Existing datasets provided by statistical agencies (e.g. Eurostat) show that the economic and financial crisis that unfolded in 2008 significantly impacted the lives and livelihoods of young people across Europe. Taking these official statistics as a starting point, the collaborative research project “Cultural Pathways to Economic Self-Sufficiency and Entrepreneurship in Europe” (CUPESSE) generated new survey data on the economic and social situa…
Attachment (in)security and threat priming influence signal detection performance
This study examined whether the subliminal priming of threat and attachment figure availability interfere with cognitive attentional performance in conditions of uncertainty among individuals with differing attachment orientations. University students ( N = 225) first completed a scale to identify names of their significant attachment figures (WHOTO) and self-report measures of attachment anxiety and avoidance and were then administered a compute…
Intergenerational Transmission of Work Values in Czech Republic, Spain, and Turkey: Parent-Child Similarity and the Moderating Role of Parenting Behaviors
Although public debates emphasize a weakening of work values and ethics over the last few decades, little attention has been paid to the transmission of work values between parents and children. It is still unclear what kind of parental behavior is critical and if culture influences the intergenerational transmission of work values. Based on socialization and value transmission theories, we explore the question by comparing three countries with d…
Subjective status and perceived legitimacy across countries
The relationships between subjective status and perceived legitimacy are important for understanding the extent to which people with low status are complicit in their oppression. We use novel data from 66 samples and 30 countries ( N = 12,788) and find that people with higher status see the social system as more legitimate than those with lower status, but there is variation across people and countries. The association between subjective status a…
Factors Influencing Children's Appraisals of Interparental Conflict: The Role of Parent-Child Relationship Quality
The cognitive contextual model proposes that children's appraisals of interparental conflict (IPC) can influence their adjustment. In addition, previous research revealed that interparental disputes may reflect on parent-child relationship that is linked with children's self-blame and threat appraisals concerning IPC. However, there is a scarcity of research directly addressing the intervening role of the parent-child relationship on children's a…
Differences Across Generations and Stability of Values in the Turbulence of Social Change in Turkey
The cognitive cost of closeness: Interpersonal closeness reduces accuracy and slows down decision‐making
Interpersonal closeness increases the overlap between mental representations of the self and the other, thus rendering it more difficult to differentiate between self‐ and other‐related information. We suggest that closeness challenges computational capacity during decision‐making when the decision requires a differentiation between self‐ and other‐related information. Correlational Study 1 showed that when participants imagined engaging in a two…
Testing the Compatibility of Attachment Anxiety and Avoidance with Cultural Self-Construals
Insecure attachment has been associated with relatively more negative outcomes in mainstream attachment literature, yet several empirical studies show almost half of the populations globally are insecurely attached. Moreover, although attachment security is the universal norm, attachment anxiety and avoidance exhibit significant cultural variation. To explore how this variation can offer certain advantages to people with insecure attachment tende…
System‐based emotions in Turkey and support for versus opposition to the Gezi Park protests
Research on system justification theory has found that ideological justification of the status quo is associated with increased positive emotion and decreased negative emotion and, consequently, a lack of support for system‐challenging protest. However, almost all of this research has been conducted in “WEIRD” (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) countries. Here we investigated the role of system‐level emotions in mediating the n…
Predictors of rumination and co-rumination: The role of attachment dimensions, self-compassion and self-esteem
Behavioral Reactions to Job Insecurity Climate Perceptions: Exit, Voice, Loyalty, and Neglect
Past work has extensively documented that job insecurity predicts various work- and health-related outcomes. However, limited research has focused on the potential consequences of perceived job insecurity climate. Our objective was to investigate how the psychological climate about losing a job and valuable job features (quantitative and qualitative job insecurity climate, respectively) relate to employees' exit, voice, loyalty, and neglect behav…
Is distanced mothering a neglectful or normative parenting strategy? Evidence from three countries
Distanced and intensive mothering constitute the opposite ends of parenting. Unlike intensive parenting, distanced parenting has attracted less attention from researchers, though it is not uncommon. Distanced parenting has been used interchangeably with disengaged parenting, which is treated as a mild form of parental neglect based on low warmth and control. Yet, it also may be used intentionally as a culturally fostered parenting strategy. The c…
Socioeconomic Disadvantage as a Risk Factor for Attachment Insecurity: The Moderating Role of Gender
Although socioeconomic conditions are crucial predictors of adult attachment, the relationships between attachment patterns and distinct dimensions of socioeconomic disadvantage, reflecting its structure as a multi-faceted social construct, remain largely unexplored. Moreover, the overwhelming majority of the previous studies utilized samples from Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD) societies, so little is known about …
Cultural Correlates of Adult Attachment Dimensions: Comparing the US and Turkey
Mainstream attachment literature has chiefly employed WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic) samples, yet cross-cultural studies investigating attachment dynamics outside of Western world corroborated universality of the basic tenets of attachment theory and normativity of attachment security. Importantly, these studies revealed country-level differences in the prevalence of insecure attachment tendencies. Of note, this li…
The role of attachment orientations in capitalization and mattering among married couples
Why do some perceive a partner's response as heartening while others interpret the same response as demoralizing? This study examined how attachment anxiety and avoidance influence perceived partner responses toward capitalization attempts (PRCA) and perceived mattering (PM) among married couples ( N = 103 dyads). Dyadic analyses delineating the actor and partner effects revealed that wives' attachment avoidance predicted own PRCA, PM, and their …
Buffering and ambiguity effects of maternal warmth on associations between psychological control and child attachment in a cross-national perspective
Although warmth and psychological control are core parenting dimensions, their combined effect on child attachment is not well recognized, yet needed to understand complex parenting processes that may lead to the development of attachment security and insecurity in childhood. Results of previous studies support two mechanisms. Firstly, the buffering model reveals that parental warmth mitigates the negative effects of maternal psychological contro…
Psychology (27 works) · Social Psychology (24 works) · Developmental psychology (19 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (15 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (9 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Attachment theory (7 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (6 works)