The Relationship Between Freshman Adult Attachment and Sense of Life Meaning in University: Mediated by Perceived Social Support

Jie Feng; Qian Xiao; Xiaoqing Mao; Yalan Li

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The Relationship Between Freshman Adult Attachment and Sense of Life Meaning in University: Mediated by Perceived Social Support

Jie Feng^*, Qian Xiao, Xiaoqing Mao, Yalan Li

Published in Science Innovation (Volume 12, Issue 4)

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College freshmen are at the beginning of the critical period of establishing their outlook on life and values, so it is very important to guide and educate them correctly on the meaning of life and values. Many psychological problems and suicidal behaviors of college students are related to the lack of life meaning. This study mainly discusses the relationship between adult attachment, understanding of social support and sense of life meaning of college freshmen. Using the sense of life meaning scale, intimate relationship experience scale and perceptive social support scale, a questionnaire survey was conducted among 1069 freshmen. SPSS software was used for correlation analysis, and Process macro was used to test the mediating effect of perceptive social support. The results show that: (1) There are significant correlations among adult attachment, understanding of social support and sense of meaning in life; (2) Understand that social support plays a partial mediating role between adult attachment and sense of meaning in life. These results indicate that the attachment of college freshmen adults can affect their sense of life meaning directly and indirectly through the influence of social support. The results of this study have some implications for practice: On the one hand, the family should pay attention to the cultivation of safe parent-child attachment relationship and environment; On the other hand, colleges and universities should give full and good social support to college freshmen, and set up education or group counseling activities on the sense of meaning of life.

Published in	Science Innovation (Volume 12, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.si.20241204.12
Page(s)	63-67
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Freshmen at University, Adult Attachment, Perceived Social Support, Meaning of Life, Mediating Effect

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Feng J, Xiao Q, Mao X, Li Y. The Relationship Between Freshman Adult Attachment and Sense of Life Meaning in University: Mediated by Perceived Social Support. Sci Innov. 2024;12(4):63-67. doi: 10.11648/j.si.20241204.12

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Jie Feng

Department of Ideological and Political Theory Teaching and Research, Beijing Electronic Science and Technology Institute, Beijing, China

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Qian Xiao

Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China; College of Education Science, Henan Institute of Science and Technology, Xinxiang, China

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Xiaoqing Mao

College of Education Science, Xinxiang University, Xinxiang, China

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Department of Ideological and Political Theory Teaching and Research, Beijing Electronic Science and Technology Institute, Beijing, China

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