Font Size: a A A

The Influence Of Adult Attachment, Social Support On Subjective Well-being Among College Students

Posted on:2009-05-12Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X FengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360245458421Subject:Basic Psychology
Abstract/Summary:PDF Full Text Request
Happiness is everyone's goal of the pursuit and happiness for everyone has a different understanding. The research of subjective well-being in recent years is a very active topic, which is the most striking areas in the Positive psychology at the same time. The so-called subjective well-being refers to people under the set of evaluation criteria, for their own life satisfaction and emotional state of the overall assessment and psychological experience, including emotional and cognitive component elements,which is a measure of the individual quality of life and psychological state of the comprehensive psychological indicators.Attachment is an individual and another individual formed a strong emotional ties tendency. Attachment formed in early childhood, it is widely considered the "cradle to grave" of all life stages of a sexual attachment. Each person's growth process is different, so each individual has developed its own unique style of attachment; everyone will experience difficulties, and it is very important for everyone to have a strong social support system. and also social support is one of important factors for subjective well-being. It is limited to discuss about the research between social support and subjective well-being in the past. It hasn't used an independent psychological indicators to predict the two. Therefore, this study tried to survey an important impact on attachment type of individuals and social support and subjective well-being,and to understand the mutual relations.In this study, undergraduates for the test, a questionnaire survey on college students adult attachment, social support and subjective well-being of the relationship among the three. Conclusion of the study are as follows:(1) The overall sense of happiness is slightly lower than average. (2)Attachment type of distribution for contemporary college students is as follows: the security of attachment of 13.6 percent; fear of the type of 48.3 percent, accounting for 21.1% of focus, accounting for 17.0 percent of indifference, and it's different from the proportion of foreign attachment.(3) It has a gender differences on the use of social support for the contemporary college students, the girls' is significantly higher than that of boys'; the difference was not significant between the support of the subjective and the support of the objective dimensions.(4) For arts college students, the scores of social support, objective and subjective social support are significantly higher than science college students. (5)Subjects differing in adult attachment styles varied significantly in all indexes of social support and subjective well-being for contemporary college students. Secure Subjects got higher scores in social support and subjective well-being than those of unsecured subjects. (6) Attachment anxiety had significantly positive correlation with negative emotion as well as significantly negative correlation with positive emotion for the contemporary university students; the differences between attachment evasion and the both are not remarkable. (7) Attachment type of contemporary college students, social support and subjective well-being had potential relationship among the three variables, there is an impact on relations for adult attachment and subjective well-being with social support as an intermediary.
Keywords/Search Tags:college students, adult Attachment, social support, subjective well-being
PDF Full Text Request
Related items