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Emerging-adults' adjustment to university: Role of attachment and family functioning

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Background. Entering university is a time of transition: contextual transition (high-school to university), developmental transition (issue of being adult) and modification in the family relations. To succeed at university, psychosocial adjustment is required. Indeed, these transitions create deconstruction of the living conditions (Boyer, Coridian & Erlich, 2001). This is a time when emerging adults become more independent and self-sufficient (Tanner, 2006), consequently relations between them and their family change, which can be analyzed from the attachment theory. Aims of the study. The purpose of the study was first to identify attachment profiles and family functioning profiles of emerging-adults in their first year at university, and second to determine if these profiles bring to specific psychosocial adjustment. Method. Our sample consisted of 218 emerging-adults, first-year students (89.4% women; Mage=18.7) recruited in the University of Bordeaux, France. Psychosocial adjustment comprised 4 dimensions: academic results, self-esteem (Self-Perception Profile for College Student, SPPCS), depression (Beck Depression Inventory, BDI) and anxiety (State Trait Anxiety Inventory, STAI). The Adult Attachment Scale (AAS) was used to measure attachment, and the Family Assessment Device (FAD) was applied to evaluate family functioning. Results. Using an iterative k-means clustering procedure, we found 3 attachment profiles in line with the literature: secure, anxious and avoiding ones. Concerning the family functioning, 3 clusters were derived: problematic, healthy and neutral (neither problematic nor healthy) ones. MANOVA analysis indicated that attachment profiles and family functioning profiles were associated with psychosocial adjustment. Moreover, Tukey post- hoc tests showed that the students within the secure attachment profile and those included in the healthy family functioning profile had highest scores in self-esteem and lowest scores in depression. Conclusion. These results highlight the role of familial relational factors in emerging adults’ psychosocial adjustment in the first year of university. Implications for future research will be discussed.
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hal-03827459 , version 1 (24-10-2022)

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Basilie Chevrier, Philippe Compagnone, Lyda Lannegrand. Emerging-adults' adjustment to university: Role of attachment and family functioning. 18th European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Aug 2017, Utrecht, Netherlands. ⟨hal-03827459⟩
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