英文摘要 |
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships among attachment, individuation and college adjustment. The sample consisted of 444 students from eight universities and colleges in Taipei. Instruments used in this study were ”Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment”, ”Individuation Inventory” and ”College Adjustment Inventory”. Data was analyzed by T-test and canonical correlation analysis. The main findings were follows: (1) Men showed more functional independence, emotional independence, conflictual independence and lesser peer attachment and goal commitment than did women. (2) Individuals who experienced more parental attachment showed greater conflictual independence, self-other differentiation, functional dependence, attitudinal dependence and emotional dependence. (3) Those men who exhibited stronger parent attachment, peer attachment in conjunction with greater self-other differentiation were better in academic adjustment, emotional adjustment and social adjustment, however, were worse in goal commitment. Moreover, men who only exhibited stronger peer attachment were more likely to b worse in academic adjustment. Females who exhibited stronger parent attachment peers attachment in conjunction with greater self-other differentiation were better in emotional adjustment and social adjustment. Moreover, females who exhibited stronger peer attachment in conjunction with lesser conflictual independence tend to be worse in emotional adjustment. |