The Study of Relationships among Master students’ Psychological Separation - Individuation and Health : The Mediating Predicted Effects of the Ability to be in Solitude.

• Main Authors: Yi-Chun Kuo, 郭怡君
• Other Authors: Sung-Hsien Sun
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/r577cn

碩士 === 國立臺北教育大學 === 心理與諮商學系碩士班 === 104 === The purpose of this survey study was to explore the relationship between master students’ psychological separation–individuation and health, and examine whether the capacity to be alone had a moderating effect between these two factors. A survey named “the experience of master students’ live” was used as the research tool, which was composed of the “psychological separation–individuation scale,” the “capacity-to-be-alone scale,” and the “general health scale.” Subjects were drawn through convenience sampling, and the main results of the analysis of 224 valid surveys suggested the following: 1.Male had a better performance than female on “conflictual independence with father,” while female had a better performance than male on “emotional independence.” Master students in early adulthood had a better performance than those in adulthood on “functional independence,” “attitudional independence,” “emotional independence,” and “psychological separation–individuation” with father and mother; however, there was no significant difference on “conflictual independence.” 2.Female had a better performance than male on the “solitary comfortable scale” and the “capacity-to-be-alone scale.” In terms of the “capacity-to-be-alone scale,” there was no significant difference among master students of different ages. 3.In terms of the “general health scale”, there was no significant difference among different ages and genders. 4.The “psychological separation–individuation with father” could predict master students’ “social dysfunction,” “severe depression,” and “health.” Furthermore, one’s “solitary comfort” had a partial moderating effect between one’s “psychological separation–individuation with father” and both “social dysfunction” and “severe depression;” and a full moderating effect between one’s “psychological separation–individuation with father” and “mental and physical health.” In regard to the extended point of view of the results, the study explored the meaning of separation in Chinese parent-child relations. Perhaps it represented destructive alienation rather than mature independence, and the individual’s solitude was separation in action. Lastly, the topic of family boundary was examined, including what it could possibly look like under the simultaneous and interweaving development of family relationship and a child’s solitude; and the application in counseling was discussed