Research on the Mechanism of Parent–Child Attachment to College Student Adversarial Growth

Mi Tian, Ting Nie and Hengrui Liang
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Mi Tian: School of Business, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau 999078, China
Ting Nie: School of Business, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau 999078, China
Hengrui Liang: Shenzhen Xinbaoyou Industry Co., Ltd., Shenzhen 518020, China

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 7, 1-14

Abstract: This study explores the impact of parent–child attachment mechanisms on adversarial growth among Chinese students. After Chinese college students start independent life away from their parents, they face adversity on their own. However, their original family always influences students’ methods for dealing with adversity and how they grow and mature. A survey of 364 college students found that parental trust and communication have positive impacts on adversarial growth through the improvement of self-identity, while parental alienation reduces self-identity and contributes negative effects on the adversarial growth of college students. Internal control personality has a negative moderating effect between parental trust, parental communication, and adversarial growth and a positive moderating effect between parental alienation and adversarial growth. Low internal control personality therefore has a positive influence on parental trust and communication on adversarial growth and decreases the negative influence of parental alienation. A substitution effect between internal control personality and parental attachment was also found. Different child personality requires different type of parent–child attachment relationship to maximize their ability to handle future adversity.

Keywords: parent–child attachment; self-identity; adversarial growth; internal control personality; college student (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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