Students Adult Attachment, Coping With Negative Emotional Relationship

This study mainly explored the relationships about adult attachment, coping styles and negative emotion, and coping styles should be attached as an intermediary variables affecting the relations between adult attachment and negative emotion. Participants was from the two colleges and universities in Shanghai and Anhui ,a total of 384 members.The survey data was used structural equation modeling to the main analysis. Results indicated that; attachment dimensions directly forecasted negative emotion ; coping styles fully mediated the realationship between attachment anxiety and negative emotions and partially mediated the relationship between attachment avoidance and negative emotions; attachment dimensions explained 39% of the variance in coping styles and attachment dimensions and coping styles explained 55 % of the variance in negative emotion . These results tell us not only that it is important to consider attachment anxiety or avoidance in understanding negative emotions but also that coping styles plays an important role in these relationships. The final also discussed the complex relations between them to psychological counselling intervention implications and the future research directions.