Childhood Emotional Abuse and Dyadic Adjustment of Dating Couples: The Mediating Roles of Adult Attachment and Relatedness Needs Fulfillment
Abstract
Based on adult attachment theory and literature, the present study set the model representing interplay of childhood emotional abuse and dyadic adjustment of dating couples mediated by adult attachment and relatedness needs fulfillment and investigated the model by employing actor and partner interdependence model (APIM). Results of structural equation modeling (SEM) from data of 148 dating couples indicated the hypothesized model fit the data. First, results revealed childhood emotional abuse had actor effects on adult attachment for men; actor effect of attachment avoidance was significant on relatedness needs fulfillment and dyadic adjustment on the direct path. Second, results for women revealed that actor effect were presented on the direct path from childhood emotional abuse to adult attachment, from adult attachment to relatedness needs fulfillment, and from relatedness needs fulfillment to dyadic adjustment. Also, women’s attachment avoidance had partner effects on men’s relatedness needs fulfillment and dyadic adjustment. Third, the link between childhood emotional abuse and dyadic adjustment was fully mediated by attachment avoidance and relatedness needs fulfillment for men and women. Implications for future research and counseling practice were discussed.
- keywords
- 아동기 정서학대 경험, 성인애착, 관계욕구충족, 관계적응, 자기-상대방 상호의존 모형, childhood emotional abuse, adult attachment, relatedness needs fulfillment, dyadic adjustment, actor-partner interdependence model
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