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The Korean Journal of Health Psychology

  • KOREAN
  • P-ISSN1229-070X
  • E-ISSN2713-9581
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The Impact of Insecure Attachment and Ego Identity on Career Indecision in College Students

The Korean Journal of Health Psychology / The Korean Journal of Health Psychology, (P)1229-070X; (E)2713-9581
2011, v.16 no.2, pp.401-425
https://doi.org/10.17315/kjhp.2011.16.2.010

Abstract

This study investigated the relationship among college students' insecure attachment, ego identity and career indecision. It also explored the mediating effect of ego identity on the relationship between insecure attachment and career indecision. A questionnaire was administered to 846 college students of five universities. The results indicated that attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance had a positive influences on career indecision and attachment anxiety had influences on career indecision more than attachment avoidance. Diffusion Status, Foreclosure Status and Moratorium Status had a influences on career indecision positively. But Achievement Status had a influence on career indecision negatively. Diffusion Status, Foreclosure Status and Moratorium Status were found to play a mediating role in the relationship between attachment anxiety and career indecision. Foreclosure Status was found to play a mediating role in the relationship between attachment anxiety and career indecision. This study reveals that, insecure attachment and maladjustment ego identity were a significant predictor of career indecision. and insecure attachment indirectly affected career indecision through the maladjustment ego identity

keywords
insecure attachment, attachment anxiety, attachment avoidance, ego identity, career indecision, insecure attachment, attachment anxiety, attachment avoidance, ego identity, career indecision, 불안정 애착, 애착불안, 애착회피, 자아정체성, 진로미결정

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