Research On The Correlation Of Adult Attachment,Self-Compassion And Emotional Eating And Intervention Of Drawing Group Among College Students

Emotional eating is an abnormal behavior to alleviate negative emotions,which reflects a detrimental defence mechanism in fact.Without timely intervention,it probably develops into eating disorder.Therefore,it is necessary to provide an effective project of psychological intervention.Numerous researches indicate important correlation between adult attachment,self-compassion and emotional eating.Currently,researches on self-compassion enjoy great attentions at home and abroad,but on the contrary,there are enormous gaps in the field of self-compassion intervention of emotional eating.In consequence,this research is in attempt to explore the possible mechanism between adult attachment and emotional eating in college students from the perspective of self-compassion.This research also tries to carry out group guidance activity of self-compassion drawing to explore the intervention of self-compassion in the college students’ emotional eating.This study consists of two parts: 1.By means of investigation and research,this research explores current situation of adult attachment,self-compassion and emotional eating of college students and the relationship among them,as well as the role of self-compassion in them.2.Study on the intervention of self-compassion drawing group guidance activity on emotional eating of college students.The results indicate that:(1)The overall levels of attachment avoidance,attachment anxiety of college students were all in the medium level.The level of attachment avoidance of female college students is significantly higher than that of male college students;The attachment anxiety level of humanities and social science majors was significantly higher than that of natural science majors.The attachment avoidance level of rural college students is significantly higher than that of urban college students.The attachment anxiety level of urban college students is significantly higher than that of rural college students.The attachment anxiety level of only child was significantly higher than that of non-only child.The attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance levels of single college students were higher than those of married and in love.(2)The level of self-compassion of college students was in the medium level.The self-compassion level of college students who are in love is significantly higher than that of single college students.(3)The level of emotional eating of college students was in the medium level,indicating that college students have a medium degree of emotional eating problems.The level of emotional eating of female college students was significantly higher than that of male students.The level of emotional eating of humanities and social science majors was significantly higher than that of natural science majors.(4)There was a significantly negative correlation between adult attachment and self-compassion,a significantly negative correlation between emotional eating and self-compassion,and a significantly positive correlation between adult attachment and emotional eating.(5)Self-compassion,as a intermediate variable of adult attachment and emotional eating,has some significantly intermediate effects.The mediating effects of self-compassion on attachment avoidance,attachment anxiety and emotional eating were 24.47% and 16.21%,respectively.(6)Intervention of self-compassion drawing group can significantly improve the level of self-compassion and significantly reduce the level of emotional eating of college students.According to the analysis of qualitative data,self-compassion group members were more self-accepting and better at confronting their emotions as well as improving emotional eating behavior after group activities.Conclusions:There was a correlation among adult attachment,self-compassion and emotional eating,in which self-compassion played a partly intermediate role between adult attachment and emotional eating.Self-compassion drawing group is effective to enhance the level of self-compassion of college student and improve emotional eating behavior.