A Study On The Relationship Between Childhood Psychological Abuse And Neglect, Adult Attachment And Fear Of Intimacy And Its Intervention

The intimate relationship is an important element in the human life.The harmonious relationship brings us happy experience,while the opposite of that is pain.It is the pain and risk of the intimate relationship that makes people fear it.This study starts from the attachment system,which affects the original system of the intimate relationship,and combines with narrative therapy to explore how the fear of intimacy happens.Through quantitative research and intervention of narrative group counseling,the study explores the relationship among college students' child psychological abuse and neglect,adult attachment and intimacy fear.In the quantitative study,746 college students in Nanjing are investigated with Child Psychological Abuse and Neglect Scale,Adult Attachment Scale and Fear of Intimacy Scale.In the intervention study,through campus recruitment and individual interviews,20 eligible college students are selected from a certain university and randomly assigned to the intervention group and the control group using group counseling.The intervention group receives group therapy twice a week for 4 weeks,while the control group doesn't do something special.Finally,the quantitative data and qualitative data obtained in the group counseling are analyzed to discuss the effect of the intervention.The results are as follows:1.There are significant differences in gender and grade in terms of College Students' child psychological abuse and neglect;for adult attachment,there are significant differences in the origin of student,whether suffering from physical illness and grade;for attachment anxiety,there are significant differences in gender;2.In the correlation analysis,child psychological abuse is significantly positively correlated with the degree of neglect,attachment anxiety and fear of intimacy,and adult close attachment is significantly negatively correlated with the degree of neglect and fear of intimacy;3.In regression analysis,(1)the total score of child psychological abuse and neglect can significantly positively predict the score of intimacy fear.(2)adult close attachment significantly negatively predicts the score of intimacy fear,attachment anxiety significantly positively predicts the score of intimacy fear.(3)The total score of child psychological abuse and neglect can significantly negatively predict college students' adult close attachment and positively predict attachment anxiety.4.The results of mediator effect show that adult close attachment and attachment anxiety can play a partial mediating role between child psychological abuse and neglect,and fear of intimacy,respectively.5.After intervention of narrative group counseling on the childhood trauma,the intervention group has significant differences in adult close attachment,attachment anxiety and fear of intimacy before and after the test,and also has significant differences with the control group.It can be concluded that childhood psychological abuse and neglect can directly or indirectly affect college students' fear of intimacy.Adult attachment and the intervention of narrative group counseling on the childhood trauma can effectively cure the child psychological abuse and neglect experience of college students to improve the quality of adult attachment and fear of intimacy.