Adult Attachment and Psychological Well-Being among Mothers with Preschoolers: Mediation Effects of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies
AUTHOR : 정윤주
INFORMATION : page. 33~46 / 2023 Vol.30 No.4
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study is to examine whether or not the relationship between mothers’ adult attachment (anxious and avoidant) and psychological well-being is medi-ated by cognitive emotion regulation strategies (adaptive and maladaptive). Three hun-dred and twelve mothers (mean age = 36.65 years old) participated in the study via an on-line survey. Data were analyzed using SPSS 25.0 and Process macro for SPSS (Hayes, 2022). Descriptive statistics and Pearson’s product correlation coefficients were obtained, and tests of the mediation effects were performed by model 4 of Process macro for SPSS. As for mediation effects, both adaptive and maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies were found to partially mediate the relationship between mothers’ adult at-tachment and psychological well-being. These findings indicate that supporting mothers of insecure adult attachment (anxious or avoidant) to use adaptive cognitive emotion reg-ulation strategies might enhance their psychological well-being which is related to pos-itive parenting.