The Relationship Between Childhood Trauma And Romantic Anxiety:The Role Of Intolerance To Uncertainty And Perceived Partner Response

With the constant complex changes of domestic social situation and the rapid development of our national economy,the problems of marriage and love have become more and more prominent,and more and more scholars have begun to pay attention to the attitude of contemporary young people towards love and marriage.Early childhood traumatic experiences have a certain impact on adult attitudes towards love and marriage,and most of them show negative effects,so the specific internal mechanism needs to be further explored.People with low tolerance to uncertainty are usually more sensitive to attitudes and behaviors in the relationship and are more likely to be hurt in the relationship.If the more sensitive partner could be more responsive from their partner,the relationship would improve more.Thus,perceiving partner responsiveness may indirectly affect an individual’s view of the relationship.This study is divided into two parts:In the first study,the questionnaire method was adopted to revise the marital anxiety questionnaire to make it more applicable to the contemporary youth group.Through the investigation of 1240 young individuals as research objects,the results show that:The Cronbach’sαcoefficient of the revised questionnaire is 0.936 in the youth group,χ~2/(9=3.05,RMSEA=0.06,TLI=0.91,CFI=0.90,SRMR=0.06,and all indexes are in line with the requirements of psychological measurement.These results indicate that the questionnaire has good reliability and validity,and can be used as a tool to evaluate the marital anxiety of Chinese young people.In the second study,questionnaire surveys were used to investigate the internal mechanism of intolerability of uncertainty and perceived partner response in the influence of childhood traumatic experiences on love and marriage anxiety.The study used Love and Marriage Anxiety Questionnaire,Child Trauma Questionnaire(CTQ),Intolerance of uncertainty(IU)and Perceived Partner Responsiveness Scale(PPRS).We invited 1032 young individuals to finish these questionnaires,and the collected data was sorted out and analyzed.The final results obtained are as follows:(1)There were significant differences in the childhood trauma of young people in terms of gender,age,singleness,identity and love and marriage experience.There were significant differences in gender,age,marital experience and parents’marital status.There were significant differences in perceived partner response in gender,age,identity and romantic experience.There are significant differences in relationship anxiety in gender,age and relationship experience.(2)Childhood trauma could significantly positively predict love and marriage anxiety.(3)There was a significant positive correlation between young people’s intolerability uncertainty and love anxiety.(4)There was a significant positive correlation between intolerant uncertainty and perceived partner response,that is,the level of perceived partner response of young people with high intolerant uncertainty was higher than that of perceived partner response of young people with low intolerant uncertainty.(5)Intolerability of uncertainty played a partial mediating role in the influence of childhood trauma on young people’s love and marriage anxiety.(6)Perceived partner response played a moderating role in the second half of the mediating pathway between childhood trauma and marital anxiety.In a word,the more severe the childhood trauma experience,the deeper the degree of love and marriage anxiety;young people with high intolerability uncertainty have more serious love and marriage anxiety;childhood trauma not only had a direct impact on young people’s love and marriage anxiety,but also further positively influences young people’s love and marriage anxiety by making them produce unbearable uncertainty;High perceived partner response weakened the positive effect of childhood trauma on young people’s relationship anxiety.It was suggested that the perception of partner response was helpful for young individuals to resist the influence of childhood trauma on love and marriage anxiety.