・Authors: Fan Yang / 楊帆；Takashi Oka / 岡隆

・Title: Free from Your Experiences to Grow: Belief in Free Will Moderates the Relationship Between Attachment Avoidance and Personal Growth Initiative

・Journal(書誌情報）: BMC Psychology, 11, Article number: 243 (2023)

・doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-023-01289-x

・論文URL: https://bmcpsychology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40359-023-01289-x

・Abstract: Background: Attachment theory proposes that attachment security facilitates personal growth. However, attachment security origins in relationship history, and thus, how people treat their experiences may influence the outcomes of attachment security. People differ in the degree in believing that human beings have free will, and belief in free will may influence the relationship between experiences and outcomes. The present cross-sectional study investigated the relationships between attachment security, belief in free will, and personal growth initiative.
Methods: We used the cross-sectional data of 346 Chinese college students for data analysis, including correlational analyses, regression, and moderation analyses. The nine-item Chinese version of the Experiences in Close Relationships-Relationship Structures Scale, the sixteen-item Chinese version of the Personal Growth Initiative Scale-II, and the seven-item Free Will subscale of the Chinese version of the Free Will and Determinism Plus Scale were utilized.
Results: Results showed attachment avoidance and belief in free will, not attachment anxiety, was associated with personal growth initiative. Belief in free will moderated the association between attachment avoidance and personal growth initiative. When the centered score of belief in free will was higher than 0.64, attachment avoidance was no longer associated with personal growth initiative. 85.84% of our data were below this Johnson-Neyman significance region, and 14.16% were above. In other words, only those who scored higher than 0.64 on free will beliefs were able to pursue personal growth despite their high attachment avoidance.
Conclusions: These findings suggest that when believing in free will, avoidantly attached people may believe in their ability to pursue personal growth and think their future has more possibilities, not influenced by other factors like social support, which they think they lack.

著者Contact先の email: psy.fyang[at]gmail.com（[at]を@に変えてください。）

日本語によるコメント：

愛着回避と自己成長主導性の間に負の関連があり、自由意志信念はこの関連を調整するという研究である。

具体的に、自由意志信念の中心化したスコアが0.64より高い場合、愛着回避は自己成長主導性と関連が有意ではなくなった。

本研究のデータのうち、85.84%は自由意志信念の中心化したスコアが0.64より低く、14.16%は0.64より高いことであった。

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