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Courtlyn Fields; Kyle Rawn; Peggy S. Keller – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdown disrupted daily life and was related to increased mental health problems across the developmental spectrum, including for emerging adults. Understanding factors that contribute to adjustment during such national crises is critical, and attachment theory may provide a valuable framework for…
Descriptors: College Students, Mothers, Fathers, Attachment Behavior
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Brown-Smythe, Claudette; Sultana, Shirin – Professional Counselor, 2023
We examined the extent to which anxious attachment and avoidant attachment predicted loneliness and social self-efficacy among 863 college students. Further, we investigated whether social self-efficacy mediated the relationships between the two insecure attachment styles and loneliness. Pearson correlations and regression analysis showed that…
Descriptors: College Students, Predictor Variables, Anxiety, Attachment Behavior
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Özteke Kozan, Hatice Irem; Arslan, Coskun – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2022
The associations between social anxiety, attachment insecurity, and emotional schemas were investigated among college students in the current study. A correlational design was used, and 502 college students (64.7% female, 35.3% male) participated in the study. In data collection, the Experiences in Close Relationships Scale (ECR), Social Anxiety…
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Students, Attachment Behavior, Emotional Response
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Cara Petrofes; Krista Howard; Azucena Mayberry; Catherine Bitney; Natalie Ceballos – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: We investigated psychological factors that might predispose individuals to sad-fish or exaggerate their emotional state online to generate sympathy. Participants: Participants (N = 347) were collegiate social media users from a large university in the Southcentral United States. Methods: Participants completed an anonymous online survey…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Social Media, Social Support Groups, Intervention
Andrew Brown – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Romantic breakups are a relatively common life event for college students, with as many as 98% of young adults reporting having experienced a breakup at any point in their past (MirsuPaun & Oliver, 2017). Although the events are common, breakups have been associated with several adverse outcomes, including loneliness and social isolation…
Descriptors: College Students, Dating (Social), Interpersonal Attraction, Attachment Behavior
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Farber, Naomi; Penney, Patrice – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2020
Features of the academic context of social work education threaten the loss of traditional educational attention to relational capacity, an indispensable condition for all forms of social work practice and thus a necessary priority for professional education. We argue that the development of relational capacity should occur in classroom as well as…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Social Work, Instruction, Interpersonal Relationship
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Cihangir Cankaya, Zeynep; Denizli, Serkan – European Journal of Educational Research, 2020
In this study we aimed to investigate the role of hope, secure attachment with the parents, and satisfaction levels of the basic psychological needs (autonomy, competence and relatedness) of university students in predicting their happiness levels. A total of 558 university students were recruited and 70% of them were female and 30% of them were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Psychological Patterns, Student Satisfaction
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Thomas, Bianca Lee; Viljoen, Margaretha – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2020
An association between attachment and academic performance appears to be consistently found in children; however, reports on such an association in adolescents are contradictory. This study aimed to determine whether the attachment dimensions of anxiety or avoidance significantly correlate with a student's academic performance at university.…
Descriptors: Correlation, Learning Strategies, Metacognition, Attachment Behavior
Gregory, David Allen – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this quantitative, correlational study was to examine whether Christian, Millennial college students' secure attachment to God relationship could contribute to their psychological separation. This question was addressed by examining (a) the correlation between attachment to parents and psychological separation, (b) the correlation…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, College Students, Christianity, Religious Factors
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Lavy, Shiri – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
Several studies have pointed to the benefits of learning in groups. However, surprisingly little research has been conducted regarding what role relationship-related personality traits play in the effectiveness of this kind of student learning. Such personality factor can potentially buffer the students' effectiveness in groups. The present study…
Descriptors: Group Activities, Higher Education, College Students, Personality Traits
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Clear, Sarah J.; Zimmer-Gembeck, Melanie J. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
Attachment theory and previous research on emotion regulation (ER) suggest that ER will be associated with adult attachment orientation, with the expectation of different associations of attachment avoidance, anxiety, and security with specific ER patterns. In addition, research has shown that the emotion under consideration and the context may…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Emotional Response, Security (Psychology), Priming
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Sahin Kiralp, F. Sülen; Serin, Nergüz B. – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between loneliness levels and attachment styles of university students. In this research, it was investigated whether the attachment styles differed in terms of variables such as gender, class, place of stay, socio-economic level of their family, parental education levels, counterpart…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Attachment Behavior, Gender Differences, Social Class
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Körük, Serdar; Öztürk, Abdülkadir; Kara, Ahmet – International Journal of Instruction, 2016
This study aims to investigate the relationships between perceived parenting, parental attachment styles and psychological symptoms among Turkish university students and it also aims to find out which perceived parenting and parental attachment styles predict psychological symptoms which were measured. This study is a quantitative research and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior
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Demirli, Aylin; Demir, Ayhan – Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 2014
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the predictive value of gender, attachment dimensions and family environment in explaining loneliness among students. The study included 473 students (281 females, 192 males) from Ankara University. The UCLA Loneliness Scale, Family Environment Assessment Scale and Experiences in Close…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Attachment Behavior, Family Environment
Domino, Jessica Leigh – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The definition of a traumatic event in Criterion A for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was narrowed in DSM-5 for events involving indirect exposure to the death of a loved one. Whereas the DSM-IV definition encompassed the sudden, unexpected death of a loved one regardless of the circumstances, the DSM-5 definition now requires that the death…
Descriptors: Death, Trauma, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Stress Variables
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