Study On The Relationship Between University Students' Adult Attachment,Self-esteem And Love Attitude

Researchers both in and abroad discovered that self-esteem as a way to judge one's value affects one's love attitude in one way or another. Based on discussing factors which influence people's romantic love, this paper focus on how self-esteem and adult romantic attachment take effects on one's romantic love while ignore other factors such as cultural background, gender and interaction between people.A survey was carried out in three different colleges and the participants are 322 senior students. Statistics in three aspects including experiences in Close Relationship-Revised, ECR—R, Love Attitude Scale-Revised, Rosenberg SES was collected, based on which the following points was concluded:1. Group characteristics of college students'love attitude:1) Male students obviously incline to be Eros, Agape and Ludus, while female students incline to be pragma;2) Those who never has a relationship incline to be storge which is very different from those who has ever had a relationship;3) Students major in science are incline to be Eros and Storge which in very different from those who study arts.2. There is a high positive correlation between self-esteem and the six dimensions of love attitude.3. There is a high negative correlation between attachment avoidance and love-attitude which includes Eros, Agape, Pragma and Mania; there is a high positive correlation between attachment anxiety and the six dimensions of love-attitude. Self-esteem has moderating effects on using styles of adult romantic attachment to predict one's love-attitude. As the self-esteem gains higher score, the related coefficient of attachment anxiety and Mania love attitude appears to be in the shape of "N "...