애착불안과 대학생활적응과의 관계

Abstract

This study is aimed to examine the structural relation between attachment anxiety andadaptation to college with mattering and interpersonal relationship competence as mediators andverify their mediating effects. To this end, data from 286 students attending universities in Seouland Gyeonggi-do was collected, and the data was analyzed with the use of SPSS 19.0 and AMOS18.0. The results are as follows. The university students’ attachment anxiety had a significantlynegative effect on mattering and adaptation to college but no significantly effect on interpersonalrelationship competence. A significantly positive effect of mattering on interpersonal relationshipcompetence was also found, but not on adaptation to college. Interpersonal relationshipcompetence had a significantly positive effect on adaptation to college. Second, according to the results of verifying the mediating effects of mattering andinterpersonal relationship competence in the relation between the university students’ attachmentanxiety and adaptation to college, mattering had a sequential partial double mediating effect onadaptation to college through interpersonal relationship competence. The results of this studyshow the need for intervention through the improvement of mattering and interpersonalrelationship competence identified as mediating variables along with efforts to help universitystudents lower their attachment anxiety for successful adaptation to college.