The Relationship Between Adult Attachment And Stress Perception In College Students-The Mediating Role Of Hope And Intervention Research

In this post-epidemic era,the society is in a period of transition.The outbreak of international layoffs,the launch of artificial intelligence products,the rising number of postgraduate entrance examinations,and the grim employment situation have brought increasing stress to college students.High perception of stress is easy to bring more negative effects on individuals and seriously reduces the quality of life and well-being of individuals Therefore,it is very necessary to research and intervene the stress perception of college students.Previous studies have found that there is a close relationship between adult attachment,hope and stress perception,but the specific mechanism is not clear.Based on this,this study wants to explore the relationship among them and investigate whether hope plays a mediating role in adult attachment and stress perception.In addition,considering that insecure attachment individuals seldom seek psychological help actively,and there are some difficulties in intervention in the actual clinical process,such as easy to fall off,comparative defense and isolation,this study aims to explore new and more acceptable intervention methods for this group,and provide them with more choices of self-help tools to reduce the perception of stress.This study consists of two parts:In Study 1,a total of 473 valid questionnaires were collected from college students to investigate the relationship among adult attachment,sense of hope,and perceived stress.The results showed that:(1)Attachment anxiety was positively correlated with stress perception,while attachment anxiety was negatively correlated with hope.Hope played a mediating role between attachment anxiety and stress perception.(2)Attachment avoidance was positively correlated with stress perception,while attachment avoidance was negatively correlated with hope.Hope played a mediating role between attachment avoidance and stress perception.Based on the results of Study 1,Study 2 attempted to intervene stress perception by improving individual sense of hope,and compared it with mindfulness training which was widely used in stress reduction,to explore the differences between the effects of the two interventions.Through the 6-week 12 times online hope writing intervention or 6-week 6 times mindfulness training intervention for insecure attachment college students,the results showed that:(3)Online hope writing and mindfulness training could both reduce the stress perception of the subjects and improve the individual sense of hope,but the effects were not significant(p > 0.05),which might be related to the infection stage of herd immunity formation during the intervention period.In addition,there were some differences(but not significant,p >0.05)between the two intervention methods in the impact of stress perception and hope: in the aspect of stress perception,mindfulness training could relieve individual stress perception more quickly,but the retention of the effect was short,while the hope writing could not relieve individual stress perception very quickly,but it had a longer term effect on the relief of stress perception.In terms of hope,mindfulness training could improve individual pathway thinking quickly,but it had a delayed effect on the improvement of individual agency thinking.Online hope writing could improve individual agency thinking,but the improvement effect on pathway thinking was not obvious.(4)In the later qualitative interview,it was also found that the hope writing could improve some college students’ stress perception and enhance their hope(pathway thinking and agency thinking)to a certain extent,and mindfulness training could also effectively improve some college students’ stress perception and enhance their hope to a certain extent.Given that the intervention process of study 2 was greatly influenced by the variable of epidemic situation,and the actual influence of these two intervention methods on individuals’ perception of stress and hope can be explored again in the future,so as to draw more reliable and convincing conclusions and provide more scientific empirical evidence for future intervention studies on stress perception.