Students' Attachment Representation Of Conscious And Unconscious Consistency

Attachment theory has been used by the developmenttal psychologists and social psychologists to study social adaptation and intimate relationship, the results have been applied to the fields of parent-child education, psychological counseling and treatment, and other fields, in these areas, the study found that there are some differences between the attachment's consciousness and unconsciousness. Bowlby believe that these differences are helpful in understanding the individual's attachment experience, but until recently, most of the work on the content of working models has relied on the explicit, self-report measures, there are short of reliable and valid assessments of implicit attachment-related representations, therefore few studies systematically compare explicit and implicit content.This study used Attachment Scales, such as RSQ and ECR, and Implicit Association Test(IAT), to test the 103 students of romantic relationship, discuss the consistency of consciousness and unconsciousness of the general attachment representation and specific-relationship representation, as well as the mutual relation between general attachment representation and special attachment representation. Providing empirical research for the internal working model of attachment, and improving the implicit measurement tools for the attachment's unconsciousness. The main conclusions of this study are:1. In the general attachment representation and specific-relationship representation, the performance and response in the unconscious level of the individual of secure and fear styles was consistent with explicit theory, the individual of preoccupied style do not think others more active on the implicit level, that is the performance of consciousness and unconsciousness is inconsistent.2. The different judgement of targets in the unconscious level has relationship with the individual' attachment status(general attachment relationship and romantic relationship), it is maybe that the implicit cognition formed in the early interaction with their parents affect the current adult romantic attachment status, but this still needs the support of a longitudinal study.3. In the self-parents IAT and self-lover IAT, the individual who considered himself is more positive than their parents or lover.they spent less time in retrieving the negative events, the individual who considered their parents or lover are more positive than himself, their retrieving the negative events' time is longer, this is opposite to the explicit theoretical assumptions.4. There is only a small portion of preoccupied and dismissing attendees has the consistent results of implicit association test and the explicit attachment scales in both general attachment representation and specific-relationship representation.