Psychological Development and Education ›› 2020, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (6): 694-699.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2020.06.07

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The Relationship between Undergraduates' Self-esteem and Social Adaptation: The Chain Mediation Analysis of Positive Core Schema and Peer Attachment

LIU Yan1,2, CHEN Jianwen1   

  1. 1. School of Education, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074;
    2. Hunan Railway Professional Technology College, Zhuzhou 412001
  • Published:2020-11-20

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Abstract: The Self-esteem Scale, The Brief Core Schema Scale (BCSS), the Inventory of Peer Attachment, and Chinese College Student Adjustment Scale were used to investigate 459 undergraduates (235 boys and 224 girls) from 5 universities in three provinces of central China. The bias-corrected percentile bootstrap method was used to analyze the chain mediating roles of positive core schema and peer attachment between self-esteem and social adaptation. The results showed that: (1) The relationship between each pair of self-esteem, positive core schema, peer attachment and social adaptation were all significantly positive; (2) The undergraduates' self-esteem not only had a direct effect on social adaptation, but also had an indirectly effect on social adaptation through three ways: mediation through positive core schema, mediation through peer attachment and chain mediation through positive core schema and peer attachment. This conclusion is helpful to understand the mechanism of self-esteem on social adaptation, and to provide suggestions for future undergraduates to improve their social adaptability.

Key words: Undergraduate, self-esteem, positive core schema, peer attachment, social adaption

CLC Number: 

  • B844
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