A Study On The Relationship Of Adolescents' Attachment, Coping-style And Social-anxiety

Adolescence is a stage which is extremely important and full of changes. A variety of psychological problems such as social-anxiety occurred during this stage because of imbalance of physical and mental development. However social interaction can make individual's socialization and personality development all right, so the study on adolencents'social-anxiety is important and practical. Therefore the study aimed to analyse the relationships between adolesecents'attachment, coping-style and social-anxiety on the basis of the theories of attachment, explore the factors contributing to social-anxiety and provide practical basis for the theories of emotional adaptation.The study used the inventory of parent and peer attachment, the coping-style scale for secondary school students, the social-anxiety scale for adolescent to investigate the students those were 12 to 16 years old from five junior high schools in Hunan and Zhejiang province. The total number of effective questionnaires was 630, and used SPSS16.0 and Lisrel18.70 for analysis. The results were as follows:(1) Significant differences were found for gender, district on peer attachment, coping-style and social-anxiety, and adolescents'attachment, coping-style and social-anxiety were positive and healthy on the whole.(2)Adolescents'parent attachment could significantly predict peer attachment, coping-style and social-anxiety, in which parent attachment could postively predict peer attachment and problem-focused coping, reversely predict emotion-focused coping and social anxiety significantly.(3)Coping-style mediated the relatonship between parent and peer attachment. Coping-style and peer attachment mediated the relationship between parent attachment and social-anxiety.