Paper Title
Ruminative Thought Style, Inferiority Feelings And Gender In Interpersonal Rumination

Abstract
Given that there is limited research regarding the underlying mechanisms ofinterpersonal rumination, the purpose of this research is to reveal if ruminative thought style, inferiority feelings and gender predict rumination about an interpersonal offense. The research participants consisted of 147 undergraduate students attending a large public university in Turkey during the 2017-2018 academic year. The results of the hierarchical regression analysis revealed that ruminative thought style and gender included in the analysis within the first block can predict interpersonal rumination at a level of 37 % (R2 = .37; p< .001) and that total variance was explained at 42 % (R2 = .42; p< .001) with the addition of inferiority feelings into the model. Considering all three variables in terms of the beta values (ᵝ), ruminative thought style was the variable that predicted interpersonal rumination the most, which is followed by inferiority feelings. Although gender was also positively associated with interpersonal rumination, its contribution was nonsignificant, meaning that being female creates only a small increase in the interpersonal rumination scores.Additional analysis revealed that dispositional rumination has a partial mediator role between inferiority feelings and interpersonal rumination, which suggests that feelings of inferiority increase individuals’ tendencies toward dispositional rumination, which in turn, makes them more prone to rumination following an interpersonal offense. Keywords - Ruminative Thought Style, Inferiority Feelings, Interpersonal Rumination