Implicit Measurement And Explicit Measurement Of Adult Attachment Of College Student

Adult attachment as a hot point of relationship is being closely watched by social psychologists and development psychologists. Because of its subconsciousness, it is necessary to evaluate adult attachment from both conscious and subconscious aspects. Parent-child attachment and romantic attachment are main style of adult attachment of college student. To know the general state and consistency of adult attachment of college student on both conscious and subconscious aspects, and the relationship between Parent-child attachment and romantic attachment, the research attempt to use both implicit and explicit measurement to evaluate adult attachment of college student. It suggests that:1、on subconscious aspect, college students are close and easy to father, mother and lover. Male has no difference on degree of close and easy to father, mother and lover. Female shows lower close and easy to father, and easy dergree from high to low is mother, lover, father. on conscious aspect, male shows higher anxious to lover, higher avoiding to father. Female shows higher avoiding to lover and father, and anxiety degree from high to low are lover, father and mother.2、on conscious aspect, secure takes about half part, and fear is least, just about10%. The second largest part of parent-child attachment is dismissing, and the second largest part of romantic attachment is preoccupied. Gender has a significant difference on dismissing of father-child attachment, the number of male is significant higher than female.3、on subconscious aspect, gender has a significant difference on romantic attachment avoidance. And on conscious aspect, whether they are the only child has a significant difference on mother attachment avoidance. Education background has a significant difference on romantic attachment anxiety. Love status has a significant difference on romantic attachment avoidance.4、on subconscious aspect, there is a little significant correlation of parent-child attachment and romantic attachment, which is accorded with multi-level working mode theory assumption. Female’s romantic attachment anxiety has a significant positive correlation with mother attachment anxiety, and romantic attachment avoidance has a significant negative correlation with father attachment avoidance. And on conscious aspect, there is a high positive correlation between parent-child attachment anxiety and romantic attachment anxiety. And there is a low positive correlation between parent-child attachment avoidance and romantic attachment avoidance of male.5、on subconscious aspect, female’s mother attachment anxiety has a significant prediction to romantic attachment anxiety. And on conscious aspect, male’s father attachment anxiety has a significant prediction to romantic attachment anxiety. Male’s both father attachment avoidance and mother attachment avoidance have a significant prediction to romantic attachment avoidance。6、Adult attachment has no consistency on subconscious aspect and conscious aspect.