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KMID : 1025820170250040911
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Family and Family Therapy
2017 Volume.25 No. 4 p.911 ~ p.929
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Adult Attachment Styles in Romantic Relationships in University Students: Relationship Addiction, Fear-of-Intimacy, and Interpersonal Competence
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Kim Jin-Hee
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Abstract
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Objectives: The purpose of this study was to identify the types of adult attachments in college students in romantic relationships and investigate difference in the levels of relationship addiction, fear-of-intimacy, and interpersonal competence in each.
Methods: A total of 621 of college students were included in the study.
Results: Adult attachment types were classified in the following ways: secure type (52.5%), preoccupied type (15.5%), dismissing type (17.1%) and fearful type (14.9%). The fearful attachment type tended to have a higher likelihood of relationship addiction. The dismissing attachment type and fearful attachment type tended to have a higher fear of intimacy. The preoccupied attachment type had a higher level of interpersonal competence. Anxiety attachment, avoidance attachment, and content of fear-of- intimacy factors are variables that affected interpersonal competence in the secure attachment type. In the preoccupied attachment type, low levels of avoidance attachment increased interpersonal competence. In the dismissing attachment type and the fearful attachment type, love addiction and sex addiction were variables that affected interpersonal competence.
Conclusions: The results of this study can influence counseling and education programs to improve satisfaction of intimate relationships.
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KEYWORD
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adult attachment, relationship addiction, intimacy, interpersonal competence
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