The Relationship Between College Students’ Adult Attachment And Forgiveness:Multiple Mediation Effects Of Self-esteem And Humor Style

Forgiveness is a kind of prosocial behavior,which means that the victim gives up the anger and revenge to the offender,instead of tolerant attitudes and behavior.For a long time,forgiveness has been regarded as a virtue of human being,as well as justice and justice,it is a subject of ethics and pedagogy and it is also an important subject in moral psychology.In recent years,with the rise of positive psychology,more and more attention has been paid to the study of forgiveness.It is generally believed that forgiveness is not only beneficial to the individual’s physical and mental health,but also conducive to the establishment and maintenance of a harmonious interpersonal relationship,this means that people have reached a consensus on the noumenon value and social value of forgiveness.There are a series of beneficial explorations in the aspects of "the influence factors of forgiveness",the present study shows that the early attachment of the individual to the attachment style has an important influence on the forgiveness;self-esteem affects the level of forgiveness;the style of humor can also have an effect on forgiveness.Attachment with lifetime,as well as adult attachment,there are few studies on the systematic influence of adult attachment,and self-esteem and the humor styles on individual forgiveness,therefore,so this research has certain theoretical and practical value.This research will be studied from the point of adult attachment for forgiveness,and self-esteem and humor style as intermediary variables together into the study,using the experience of adult intimacy scale(Experiences in Close Relationships Inventory,ECR),self esteem scale(Self Esteem,Scale,SES)(Humor Style Questionnaire humor style questionnaire,HSQ)and Heartland Forgiveness Scale(Heartland Forgiveness Scales,HFS)conducted among 557 college students in three universities in Xuzhou,conclusions are as follows:1.There is a significant negative correlation between attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance and self-esteem;2.There is a significant positive correlation between College Students’ attachment avoidance and attachment anxiety and the relationship between affiliative humor and selfenhancing humor,there is a significant negative correlation between attachment avoidance and attachment anxiety and aggressive humor and self-defeating humor;3.There is a significant negative correlation between attachment avoidance and attachment anxiety and interpersonal forgiveness and self forgiveness;4.College Students’ self-esteem was significantly positively correlated with interpersonal forgiveness and self forgiveness;5.There is a significant positive correlation between College Students’ self-enhancing humor and affiliative humor and forgiveness,there is a significant negative correlation between aggressive humor and self-defeating humor and forgiveness;6.There is a significant positive correlation between College Students’ adaptive humor and self-esteem,negative correlation between maladaptive humor and self-esteem;7.Self esteem plays an intermediary role between attachment anxiety,attachment avoidance and forgiveness;8.Humor style in the relationship between attachment avoidance and forgiveness,affiliative humor and self enhancing humor and aggressive humor play an intermediary role in attachment anxiety and forgiveness;9.Self-esteem and adaptive humor have a multiple mediating effect between attachment anxiety and forgiveness.