Abstract:

People may encounter situations in which they fail in the tasks they need to accomplish in their lives. They tend to externalize their failures by taking advantage of self-handicapping behavior as a strategy against the negativities that this failure will create. It is seen that the studies on the self-sabotage of the individual have become widespread not only in the field of psychology, but also in many subjects from education to sports. When approached from this point of view, it is observed that the subject of self-handicapping is increasingly being examined in postgraduate theses. In this research, it is aimed to examine the theses written on self-handicapping within the scope of the National Thesis Center of the Council of Higher Education with the bibliometric analysis method. In the study, the postgraduate theses about self-handicapping bibliometric analyzes were made by considering variables such as type of university, city-university name, year, type of thesis, title of advisor, institute, department, subject, number of pages, sample group and keywords. Among the purposes of bibliometric studies is to assist in the creation of new studies. Within the scope of the keywords used in the theses, the tendency towards issues related to self-handicapping behavior was determined. As a result of the research, it is thought that a perspective on the subject of self-handicapping has been formed in line with the information obtained for the theses. In this context, it is expected to provide direction for those who want to work in the field of self-handicapping behavior.

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