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Study On The Relationship Between Adult Attachment And Social Support And Subjective-well Being Of College Students Left-home In Childhood

Posted on:2009-01-20Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y H WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360278963660Subject:Development and educational psychology
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Since the 1980s, rural residual labor forces transfer to cities on large scale with Reform and Opening and Urbanization Process in China. More and more children are left hometown without the caring of parents because of economic pressure. Seriousness of left-home children is becoming more and more evident, which have already aroused great attention of social various aspects."Left-home Children"became the important proposal during NPC and CPPCC in 2007.Many current researches were focus on current serious psychological problems of left-home children, but don't set foot in long effects of parent-absence in their attachment quality and psychological health. Thus in this study,"college students left-home in childhood"are chosen as research objects. We want to identify the protective factors that might modify the negative effects of parent-absence in people with special attachment experiences. And we hope to offer some feasible suggestions about psychological health education of left-home children and improve their growth environment nowadays.About 1141college students in some universities in Hubei Province take part in the study, and 319 students left-home in childhood are screened. By adopting"Experiences in Close Relationships Inventory","Social Support Rating Scale"and"Subjective Well-being Questionnaires", we analysis survey data using T-test, One-Way ANOVA analysis, Correlation analysis, Multiple Regression analysis and Structural Equation ModelingThe research shows:(1) Quality of attachment , social support level and subjective well-being level of students left-home in childhood are significantly lower than those of common students.(2)Among students left-home in childhood, the scores on passive emotion of secure attachment style are much lower than that of insecure attachment style; there are significant differences in students with different social support level, namely the higher students'social support level is, the more students experienced positive emotion and the less students experienced passive emotion, the higher students'subjective well-being level is.(3)There exits correlation among adult attachment, social support level and subjective well-being of students left-home in childhood.(4)Attachment anxiety, subjective social support, availability of support have predictive function to subjective well-being of students left-home in childhood.(5)Social support fully mediated the relationship between adult attachment and subjective well-being level of students left-home in childhood, namely adult attachment influence subjective well-being through different aspects of social support.
Keywords/Search Tags:Left-home experience in childhood, Adult attachment, Social support, Subjective well-being
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