Abstract
Abstract The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of attachment across an individual’s lifespan. The presentstudy investigated how father attachment in childhood influences adult student’s school adjustment and explored themediating effect of self-esteem between those two variables. Five hundred and twenty-nine adult students who wereenrolled in S Cyber University were participants in this study. Subjects’ ages ranged from 20-59. They were issuedwith a questionnaire addressing their present self-esteem level, attachment toward their father in childhood, andschool adjustment. The results from SEM analysis indicated that adult students’ self-esteem completely mediatedbetween their attachment to their father in childhood and their school adjustment in adulthood. This result showsthat a secure attachment to a father in childhood is related to child’s own internal working model, and that positiveself-esteem is related to social interactions including school adjustment.± ¯ ,FZ8PSET 1(attachment), ¤ N nx|(lifespan perspective), W oE(self-esteem), s®x=(school adjustment).Corresponding Author : Joo-Yeon Lee, Department of Family Environment & Welfare, Chonnam National University, 300 Yongbong-dong, Buk-gu,Kwangju, 500-757, Korea Tel: +82-62-530-1327 Fax: +82-62-530-1329 E-mail: idscot@chonnam.ac.kr
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