The Prediction of Adult Attachment and Borderline Personality Trait to College Students' Emotion Regulation

• Main Authors: LEE, WEI-WEI, 李瑋瑋
• Other Authors: LI,RUI-LING
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/21695870827856074012

碩士 === 東吳大學 === 心理學系 === 101 === Abstract Attachment and Borderline Personality have close connections which indicate great influence on the individual emotion regulation. Attachment is the most intimate affect connections among the parents and children that it has been the foundamental basis of further social development, interpersonal relationships and the proper emotional development as well. Although the onset which is most likely to take place in the early adulthood of Borderline Personality Disorder, the research of Taiwan seldom choose nonclinical individuals as subjects, nor implement the adult attachment tools to investigate the relationship compare to the clinical research. The studies has shown that patients of Borderline Personality Disorder has more intense, fluctuant change of emotions, worse emotion controbility or detective emotion dysfunctions extensively, but about how Borderline Personality influence slight changes of every aspects of emotion regulation is still worth discussing. This purpose of this study is to investigate the relations of Borderline Personality tendency and adult attachment of nonclinical individuals in their early adulthood, as well as those two variables’ influence and other variables on the emotion regulation. The study which is based on questionnaire survey obtained 500 people from the colleges of Northern Taiwan. The results showed that (1)Men have better emotion awareness, reflection and efficiency than women. Elders report better emotion awarenss. There’s no difference on emotion regulation due to different structure of the familes, nor is the difference on adult attachment due to the absence of stressful events as well. People with spouse are more likely to have secure adult attachment than people who don’t, and the insecure adult attachemnt is not affected by the status of relashionship. (2) Borderline personality trait is related to insecure adult attachment, yet there is no significant difference between Borderline personality trait and secure adult attachment. (3) Borderline personality can predict negative emotion efficiency in men, negative emotion regulation strategies, reflection and efficiency in women , and finally predict positive emotion expression in both men and women samples significantly. Most importantly of all, insecure adult attachment is proved to be the mediator of Borderline personality effect to emotion expression and efficiency in women. Key Words：borderline personality trait、adult attachment、emotion regulation