Psychological Development and Education ›› 2014, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (2): 145-152.

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Influences of Parental Attachment on College Students’ Ego Identity Statuses：the Mediating Effect of Separation-Individuation

WANG Shu-qing1, ZHANG Guang-zhen2, CHEN Hui-chang3   

  1. 1. School of Education and Psychology Science, University of Jinan, Jinan 250022;
    2. Research Center for Learning Science/Key Laboratory of Child Development and Learning Science Ministry of Education, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096;
    3. School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Online:2014-03-15 Published:2014-03-15

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Abstract: This study investigated the relations among parental attachment, separation-individuation and ego identity status in university students. 1131 university students from freshman to senior participated in the questionnaire investigation. The structural equation model was applied to analyze the mediating effects in this study. The results indicated that: (1) Secure parental attachment had strongly positive effect on the positive separation-individuation, and negative effect on the negative separation-individuation. (2) The relations between parental attachment and ego identity statuses were mediated by positive and negative separation-individuation, except that parental attachment had the directly positive effect on the ego foreclosure status. So, the conjoint between parental attachment and separation-individuation formed the healthy parent-adolescent relation context, which helped the ego identity achievement.

Key words: ego identity, ego identity status, parental attachment, separation-individuation, mediating effect

CLC Number: 

  • B844.3
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