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Psychological Well-being in Early Adulthood According to the Anxiety-Avoidance Dimension of Adult Attachment: The Mediating Effect of Self-defensive Ambivalence and Social Support

  • Global Creative Leader: Education & Learning
  • Abbr : GCL
  • 2023, 13(4), pp.245-274
  • DOI : 10.34226/gcl.2023.13.4.245
  • Publisher : Research Institute for Gifted & Talented Education, Soongsil University
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education
  • Received : November 22, 2023
  • Accepted : December 4, 2023
  • Published : December 30, 2023

Nam, Eun-A 1 jo hye young 1 Hye Won Kim 1

1공주교육대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study aimed to examine the mediating effect of self-defensive ambivalence and social support in the relationship between insecure adult attachment(anxiety attachment, avoidance attachment) and psychological well-being, focusing on the early adulthood group. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze data from a survey administrated to 230 people in their 20s to 30s. The results of the study are as follows. First, the results demonstrated significant correlations among variables. Second, in the relationship between anxiety/avoidance attachment and psychological well-being, the mediating effect of self-defensive ambivalence was not significant. Third, social support partially mediated the relationship between the anxiety attachment dimension and psychological well-being, and social support completely mediated the relationship between the avoidance attachment dimension and psychological well-being. Fourth, in the relationship between anxiety/avoidance attachment and psychological well-being, the double mediating effect of self-defensive ambivalence and social support was not significant. Finally, the implications, limitations, and suggestions of this study were included in the discussion. Above all, the significance of this study is that it confirms the importance of building a social support network to increase the psychological well-being of the early adulthood group.

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