Sandplay Features Of College Students With Different Attachment Style

Attachment is the tendency to establish a strong emotional connection between individual and the specific objects.According to the attachment theory, each person’s attachment style was formed and fixed through the interaction between child and their original main caregivers in the early childhood and has certain stability. As the internal working model, attachment style provides individual the cognitive schema to percepted the environment and associated with it.the individual in the understanding of themselves, others and the environment will continuous effected by their early attachment. Therefore, the study of individual attachment style would helps to understand and predict the future behavior of the individual.In many attachment researches, Bartholomew and Horowitz according to an individual’s positive or negative evaluation to themselves and others put forward an two dimensions attachment style model has been widely concerned. This model divided attachment style into secure、dismissing、preoccupied and fearful. individual with secure attachment style have a positive view to themselvs and others,they can enjoy an intimate contact with others, also is not afraid of being alone; individual with dismissing style are more positive of evaluating themselves, but their evaluation to others tend to be negative, they are indifferent to intimate relationships and emphasize the independent feeling; individual with preoccupied attachment style have low evaluation to themselves and high evaluation to others, they are eager to be close together and get the approval of others, and very worried about the deny and alienation of other people; Fearful attachment styles individual view themselves and others both low, they need close relationship, but more afraid to get along with others would be hurt, so they avoid too close contact with people.Study of attachment style usually adopt questionnaire method and interview method.Nowadays, taking into account the implicit characteristics of attachment style,sandplay,painting etc.as the representative of the projective test gradually aroused the concern of researchers.Sandplay is one of the most widely used nonverbal therapy tool around the world, researcher provides a "safe and free" atmosphere for subjects,the subjects used toys 、sand and water to projected their own inner world into thesandbox in a visible way. Some sandplay studies revealed that different psychological characteristics of the subjects showed a significant difference in the content|production process and narrative of sandplay,sandplay as a tool to research subjects psychological characteristics and function, its effect has generally recognized by psychology researchers especially clinical psychologists. This study attempts to explore the individual attachment style,s performance in sandplay.At present, the psychological health of college students be wildly concerned,study and evaluation of college students’ attachment styles can help understand and predict college students’ psychological problems, and provide the necessary guidance.This study through open recruitment by the subjects volunteered to participate in, and then use the 《 revised Adult Attachment Scale(ASS) 》 and《 Self-Report attachment style prototypes 》 for sorting. Finally selected 40subjects(secure13, dismissing5, preoccupied12 and fearful10) execute individual sandplay respectively. Then researchers coding and analyze each sandplay`s content,process and oral narrative part, the conclusion is:1.Different attachment style subjects have some differences in the content of sandplay. On the theme characteristics of Sandplay,than insecure attachment style subjects, secure attachment style will show more healing themes and less trauma themes. specifically, most safe style subjects in the sandplay can use a moderate amount of structures produced harmony and unified sense of the picture; Dismissing style is mostly use less structures, sand screen appear to be empty, lack of content;Preoccupied subjects in four subjects which use the largest number of structure,sandplay screen showing the most complicated and confusing; fearful subjects used structures quantity generally more moderate, sandplay picture mostly exhibit a closed isolated feeling.2.Different attachment style subjects have some differences in the process of sandplay. In terms of the time and consistency of sandplay making, the trial of dismissing style was the shortest, the longest being preoccupied style, and the secure subjects and fearful subjects centered. Secure and dismissing subjects selected structures more decisive, goal-oriented and make a few changes during the course,followed by fearful style, preoccupied subjects selected structures usually requiresrepeated selection and comparison,and the rate of making changes in the process also placed in the top in four categories. For the interaction between subjects and researcher in the process,secure subjects do most direct eye contact and speech communication with researchers, dismissing and preoccupied style followed, fearful style do least.3.Different attachment style subjects have different narrative style in sandplay. In particular, the security style subjects narrative concise, appropriate and logical, and have moderate expression of emotion; Dismissing style subjects narrative simple,general and lack of emotional expression; Preoccupied subjects narrative more burdensome, lack of integrity, have more excessive expression; Fearful subjects narrative simple, summary, they will depress the expression of emotion.