The purpose of this study is to verify the mediating effects of the dysfunctional beliefs and the moderated mediating effect of their cognitive emotion regulation in the relation between Christian adults' avoidant attachment and fear of missing out. T...
The purpose of this study is to verify the mediating effects of the dysfunctional beliefs and the moderated mediating effect of their cognitive emotion regulation in the relation between Christian adults' avoidant attachment and fear of missing out. This study explores the ways to help the adult Christians suffering the avoidant attachment, and specifically, reviews their relations due to the adaptive, maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation.
To this end, the researcher sampled the adult Christians aged between 20 and 60, and thereby, conducted a questionnaire survey for them for 3 weeks to collect the data. A total of 354 questionnaires were returned. Upon selecting out the insincere responses, the researcher analyzed 334 questionnaires. In order to verify the study points, the researcher used SPSS 29.0, AMOS 29 and PROCESS macro 4.2 programs. The statistical methods used for this study were frequency analysis, reliability analysis, correlation analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, mediating effect analysis and moderated mediating effect analysis. The bootstrap was used to test the mediating effects and the regulated mediating effects.
The results of this study can be summed up as follows. First, some significant correlations were found among adult Christians avoidant attachment, their dysfunctional beliefs, and adaptive-maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation. In particular, avoidant attachment is a little but positively correlated with the fear of missing out. Such findings may well explain that the avoidant attachment has an aspect of attachment and desire for human relationship but may also suggest that it would well be characterized by an emotional distancing from others.
In particular, avoidant attachment is a little correlated positively with the fear of missing out. Such findings may well explain about the characteristics of the avoidant attachment, which suggests that although the avoidant attachment has an aspect of attachment and desire for human relationship. The avoidant attachment may well be characterized by an emotional distance from others.
Secondly, it was found that the dysfunctional beliefs would have a partially mediating effect in the relations between avoidant attachment and fear of missing out. It means that the avoidant attachment not only affects the fear of missing out directly but also affects the fear of missing out, being mediated by the dysfunctional beliefs. Namely, it is perceived that those people with the avoidant attachment do not feel fear of missing out due to their tendency of distancing themselves from others, but if a dysfunctional belief should be working, it is perceived that they would well feel fear of missing out.
Thirdly, there was found no moderated mediation effect among avoidant attachment, dysfunctional beliefs and fear of missing out. Such a finding may well suggest that when the avoidant attachment is supported by the dysfunctional beliefs, the fear of missing out is not affected by the adaptive cognitive emotion regulation.
Fourthly, it was found that the maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation has the moderated mediation effect on the relations among avoidant attachment, dysfunctional beliefs and fear of missing out. It means that when avoidant attachment uses dysfunctional beliefs, the fear of missing out would depend on the maladaptive cognitive emotion control. Namely, in order to help the client suffering the avoidant attachment during counseling, it would be more effective to focus on the reduction of the maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation rather than the adaptive emotion control strategy.
This study examines the effects of the cognitive mechanisms or dysfunctional belief and adaptive-maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation in the relation between adult Christians' avoidant attachment and their fear of missing out. Throughout this study, the researcher endeavored to discuss the counseling approach for the adult Christians, focusing on their avoidant attachment. In addition, the researcher confirmed the differences of the avoidant attachment between adaptive and maladaptive cognitive regulation strategies. Lastly, it is expected that the results of this study would be useful for the counseling aimed at helping the clients' human relationships characterized by the avoidant attachment.