The Relationship between Attachment and Emotional Disturbance for the Adolescents: Loneliness as a Mediator

• Main Authors: Li, Chih-Ling, 李芝菱
• Other Authors: Wu, Pei-Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/wp225b

碩士 === 國立屏東大學 === 教育心理與輔導學系碩士班 === 107 === 　　The purpose of this study was to explore the mediating effect of the loneliness between attachment and emotional disturbance for adolescents; that is, to explore the mechanism how adolescent attachment predicted their emotional disturbance thorough loneliness. The participants included 813 junior high school students (412 male and 401 female) from Kaohsiung and Pingtung cities. The main results in the study were as follows: 1. Descriptive analysis of adolescent attachment, loneliness and emotional disturbance: (1) For the attachment with three objects, the scores of anxious attachment and avoidant attachment were the highest for Father-attachment, followed by Mother-attachment and Friend-attachment. (2) The average score of loneliness did not reach the midpoint of the scale (2.5 points), indicating that the degree of adolescent loneliness tends to be moderately low. (3) The average score of emotional disturbance was in the 79th percentile, meaning that the adolescent emotional disturbance is quite severe. 2. The mediating effect of the loneliness for adolescents: (1) The avoidant attachment with mother and father positively predicted emotional disturbance. However, avoidant attachment with friends predicted emotional disturbance negatively. The anxious attachment with three objects positively predicted emotional disturbance. (2) Loneliness partially mediated the relationship between attachment (anxiety and avoidance) and emotional disturbance for three different objects. (3) The overall effect of anxious attachment on emotional disturbance was greater than that of avoidant attachment. However, the overall effect of Friend-attachment avoidance on emotional disturbance was not significant.