2018, Vol.4, No.1

Clinical Psychology in Korea: Research and Practice 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.83

pISSN : 2466-0787
https://journal.kci.go.kr/cpkjournal

The purpose of this study was to investigate the structural relationship and mediating effects of variables affecting dependent depression vulnerability in college students in the secondary separation-individualization periods and to verify whether gender differences were present in the structural relationship. To achieve this goal, the public self-consciousness, rejection sensitivity, and ambivalence over emotional expressiveness were selected as mediators affecting dependent depression vulnerability, and the relationship between variables was analyzed through the structural equation model(SEM). The main findings of this study were as follows. First, separation-individualization had a negative relationship with public self-consciousness, rejection sensitivity, ambivalence over emotional expressiveness, and dependent depression vulnerability. Second, public self-consciousness, rejection sensitivity, and ambivalence over emotional expressiveness mediated in the relationship between separation-individuation and dependent depression vulnerability. Third, the level of separation- individualization was lower in women than in men, and the levels of rejection sensitivity and dependency depression were higher. Lastly, women may present a high dependent depressive vulnerability, even if they have a high level of separation-individuation. Based on these results, the academic and clinical implications of this study were discussed according to the object relations theory.

This study aimed to investigate the characteristic of adult ADHD by assessing the inhibition deficit in adult ADHD. That is, this study intended to examined whether primary symptoms of ADHD such as inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity continued until adulthood. Therefore, Adults ADHD were compared with controls using two neuropsychological experiment tasks. First, we used the modified Stroop task through eye-tracker. Stroop task is used to investigate adult ADHD with deficit through movement and control of attention. Later, we used the modified Stroop task and Priming-Stroop task to examine ADHD tendency concerning deficit of sustainable attention and response inhibition. As a result, lower response time was observed in ADHD tendency groups than in the control group. Beside, higher Stroop effect rate was observed in ADHD tendency groups than in the control group, and two groups had different response accuracy. That is, ADHD tendency groups responded too slowly and impulsively. This means that ADHD tendency groups had differences between them. These results show that ADHD tendency groups, compared to control group, had a difficulty in controlling attention and inhibition. We found that the ADHD tendency groups has impulsive and inattentive tendencies. The results of this study can be valuable in understanding the characteristic symptoms in adult ADHD tendency group. However, these results have some limitations and cannot be generalized to adult ADHD. Future studies, are necessary to generalize characteristics of adult ADHD by conducting tasks with other samples.

The results of 463 college students were analyzed using the psychological growth environment(PGE) scale, Additionally the way of coping checklist and the subjective happiness(SH) scale, were utilized to investigate the effects of perceived psychological growth environment and stress coping strategies on the happiness of college students. Through correlation analysis, we studied the relationship between psychological growth environment, stress coping strategies, and level of subjective happiness, and examined the differences in each variable according to gender. We analyzed what was most influential on subjective happiness among PGE, sub-factors of stress coping strategy, and gender, and then whether emotional relaxation, which is the most influential factor for SH, mediates the effect of PGE on SH. In the results that examined the correlation between each variables, PGE perceived by college students and coping strategy showed a positive correlation, and PGE and SH also presented a positive correlation. However, stress coping strategy and SH showed a negative correlation, and emotional relaxation and hopeful thoughts were negatively correlated with SH among the sub-factors of stress coping strategy. Second, as a result of verifying the differences in each variable according to gender, male college students reported higher SH than female college students, and female college students reported a higher tendency to seek help and use hopeful thinking among stress coping strategies. Third, emotional relaxation was the most important factor affecting SH among PGE, sub-factors of stress coping strategy, and gender. Fourth, in the relationship between PGE and SH, emotional relaxation had a negative partial mediating effect. Considering the overall results of this study, perceived PGE affects SH, and emotional relaxation in the stress coping strategies has a negative effect on SH.