The main purpose of this study was to explore the relationships among adolescents' quality of attachment, emotional intelligence, and adjustment. The participants were 997 eighth-grade students from 11 junior high schools in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The data were collected by means of questionnaires, and the employed instruments comprised Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment (Chinese version), Inventory of Adolescent Emotional Intelligence, and Inventory of Adolescent Adjustment. The applied analysis methods included descriptive statistics, one-way MANOVA, canonical correlation, and discriminant analysis. The main findings in this study were as follows:
1.The adolescents' gender was not related to their adjustment.
2.The adolescents' birth order was not related to their adjustment.
3.The adolescents' socioeconomic status (SES) was not related to their family adjustment, but it was related to their school adjustment though the correlation was weak; moreover, both the mid-SES and the high-SES adolescents outperformed the low-SES ones in school adjustment.
4.The adolescents' quality of attachment was positively related to their adjustment, and their attachment toward mother had the strongest relation to their adjustment.
5.The adolescents' emotional intelligence was positively related to their adjustment; more specifically, "motivating oneself" and adjustment had the highest correlation.
6.The quality of attachment and emotional intelligence could jointly predict the adolescents' adjustment. While "mother attachment" was the best predictor to the adolescents' family adjustment, emotional intelligence was the best predictor to their school adjustment. "Mother attachment" was the best predictor to the adolescents' adjustment as a whole.
Finally, after discussion, some suggestions were proposed for parents, teachers, educational authorities, and further studies.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0608104-092333 |
| Date | 08 June 2004 |
| Creators | Sun, Yu-chih |
| Contributors | none, none, Yu-chu Yeh |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0608104-092333 |
| Rights | withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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