A Research On The Relationships Between Parent-child Attachment, Separation-individuation And Lonelines Of College Students

Loneliness is the negative emotion that university students are prone to experience. It is related with family aspects in which parent-child attachment and separation-individuation are two important factors. In this study, the relationship between parent-child attachment, separation-individuation and loneliness is studied.The purposes of this study are as follows: 1 .Revise the existing separation-individuation scale which applies to domestic university students to provide an effective measurement tool for latter research. 2. Investigate the state of parent-child attachment, separation-individuation and loneliness of university students, explore their relationship and the way separation-individuation functions on the other two factors to supply new ideas for improving individual emotional adaptation.550 students from three universities in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province covering four grades are selected randomly for pre-measurement, of which the number of effective subjects is 524. In formal test, 750 students from five universities in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province covering four grades are selected randomly in the way of cluster, of which the number of effective subjects is 718. The following conclusions are reached through statistical analysis of data:1. The revised scale of separation-individuation for university students consists of 52 items, measuring involvement anxiety, self-centered, nurture-seeking, engulfing anxiety, dependence denial, peer integration, healthy separation and teacher idealizations. The reliability and validity of scale are in line with the requirements of psychometrics.2. The overall level of parent-child attachment and separation-individuation of university students is relatively high and that of loneliness is low. Parent-child attachment has significant main effect on gender differences, girls possessing higher level than boys. Parent-child attachment, separation - individuation, loneliness have significant main effect on grade differences. In general, freshmen and sophomore students have higher level of parent-child attachment than students of grade three and four; freshmen and sophomore students have higher level of positive separation-individuation than students of grade four; loneliness level of freshmen was significantly higher than students of other grades and that of students in grade four is significantly higher than freshmen and sophomore; positive separation-individuation has an interaction of gender×singleton, showing that the level of positive separation-individuation of girls is significantly higher than that of boys in non-exclusive groups.3. Parent-child attachment is positively correlated with positive separation-individuation and negatively correlated with negative separation-individuation and loneliness. Positive separation-individuation is negatively correlated with loneliness and negative separation-individuation is positively correlated with loneliness.4. Positive separation-individuation plays partial intermediary role between parent-child attachment and social loneliness and full intermediary role between parent-child attachment and feelings of loneliness.