Abstract
Objectives This study attempted to verify the mediating role of mentalization and rejection sensitivity in the relationship between adult attachment and emotion dysregulation of college students. Methods To this end, the results were analyzed for 409 college students attending universities nationwide. The research period was conducted as an online survey from August 3 to September 5, 2021, and analyzed through SPSS 28.0 and PROCESS Macro (ver. 3.5). Model 6 was used to verify the mediating effect of mentalization and rejection sensitivity in the relationship between adult attachment and emotion dysregulation, and bootstrapping was performed to verify the significance of the mediating effect. Results There was a significant correlation between adult attachment (attachment anxiety, attachment avoidance), mentalization, rejection sensitivity, and emotion dysregulation. Mentalization showed a complete mediating effect in the relationship between attachment avoidance and emotion dysregulation, and a partial mediating effect was confirmed in the relationship between attachment anxiety and emotion dysregulation. Rejection sensitivity showed a complete mediating effect in the relationship between attachment avoidance and emotion dysregulation, and a partial mediating effect was confirmed in the relationship between attachment anxiety and emotion dysregulation. As a result of verifying the sequential mediating effect of mentalization and rejection sensitivity in the relationship of emotion dysregulation of adult attachment (attachment anxiety, attachment avoidance), attachment avoidance showed a complete mediating effect in emotion dysregulation sequentially through mentalization and rejection sensitivity. Attachment anxiety negatively affected mentalization, but mentalization did not have an influence on rejection sensitivity, so there was no sequential mediating effect to emotion dysregulation. Conclusions The relationship between adult attachment and emotion dysregulation was confirmed for the college student group, and this will give appropriate implications for the intervention of counseling considering the level of mentalization and rejection sensitivity in the unstable college student counseling scene.
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