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A Relational Research Between Undergraduate' Adult Attachment And Childhood Trauma Experiences And A Case Intervention

Posted on:2013-01-14Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y J NiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2215330371996432Subject:Applied Psychology
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Early adulthood is a transitional stage into maturity in which the undergraduates will leavehome and go into university. In the process of adapting this environment, the number of theundergraduates' attachment objects will increase and the attachment relationships will bedeeply explored. It is so important significance for personality development and mentalmaturity. These researches, based on documentary analysis,(1)survey and analyse therelationship between adult attachment and childhood trauma experiences, explore how traumaprediction function works to adult attachment,(2) further test if affect traumas have primingeffect to attachment system and discuss that traumas activate attachment system on bothdimensionalities, attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance and try to explain thecomplexity of the activation,(3)and finally, use emotionally-focused therapy based onattachment theory to intervene a case which be hoped to fill in the clinical practice blank ofattachment treatment. This is a new try. The following are some primary results:1. Undergraduates' adult attachment and childhood trauma experience has certain related,and childhood trauma experience to adult attachment has certain prediction effect.2. The priming conditions of affect trauma will increase cognitive accessibility ofproximity-related thoughts, this is indifference to subjects' attachment styles; thepriming conditions of affect trauma will increase cognitive accessibility of attachmentworry-related thoughts (separation word) for high avoidance group and high anxietygroup.3. It is effective that the case intervention to affect connection related attachment for theundergraduate of unsecure attachment.
Keywords/Search Tags:Adult Attachment, Childhood Trauma Experience, Lexical Decision Task, EFT, Undergraduate
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