The Role of Attachment in a Social Cognitive Model of Social Domain Satisfaction in College Students

dc.contributor.advisorLent, Robert W.en_US
dc.contributor.authorJezzi, Matthew Martinen_US
dc.contributor.departmentCounseling and Personnel Servicesen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-03T05:44:19Z
dc.date.available2016-09-03T05:44:19Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.description.abstractThe study examined a modified social cognitive model of domain satisfaction (Lent, 2004). In addition to social cognitive variables and trait positive affect, the model included two aspects of adult attachment, attachment anxiety and avoidance. The study extended recent research on well-being and satisfaction in academic, work, and social domains. The adjusted model was tested in a sample of 454 college students, in order to determine the role of adult attachment variables in explaining social satisfaction, above and beyond the direct and indirect effects of trait positive affect. Confirmatory factor analysis found support for 8 correlated factors in the modified model: social domain satisfaction, positive affect, attachment avoidance, attachment anxiety, social support, social self-efficacy, social outcome expectations, and social goal progress. Three alternative structural models were tested to account for the ways in which attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance might relate to social satisfaction. Results of model testing provided support for a model in which attachment avoidance produced only an indirect path to social satisfaction via self-efficacy and social support. Positive affect, avoidance, social support, social self-efficacy, and goal progress each produced significant direct or indirect paths to social domain satisfaction, though attachment anxiety and social outcome expectations did not contribute to the predictive model. Implications of the findings regarding the modified social cognitive model of social domain satisfaction were discussed.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M21B8F
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/18613
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledCounseling psychologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAdult Attachmenten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCollege Studentsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSocial Cognitiveen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSocial Satisfactionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSubjective Well-Beingen_US
dc.titleThe Role of Attachment in a Social Cognitive Model of Social Domain Satisfaction in College Studentsen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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