Being loved is more important than loving? : Relationships between desires to love and be loved, and mental health and early adult attachment styles

アイサレル コト ハ アイスル コト ヨリモ ジュウヨウ カ アイスル コト アイサレル コト ヘノ ヨッキュウ ト セイシンテキ ケンコウ セイネンキ ノ アイチャク スタイル トノ カンレン

カネマサ, ユウジ

Kanemasa, Yuji

オオサカ ダイガク ダイガクイン ニンゲン カガク ケンキュウカ タイジン シャカイ シンリガク ケンキュウシツ

愛されることへの欲求

青年期の愛着スタイル

愛着次元

精神的健康

desires to love

desires to be loved

early adult attachment styles

attachment dimensions

mental health

The purpose of this study was to reveal the features of desires to love and desires to be loved. Thus, it was examined the relationships between these two desires, and mental health and early adult attachment styles (attachment dimensions). Scale items to measure desires to love and be loved were collected on a pilot study, and, then, a main study was conducted toward 394 undergraduates. The results revealed that factor analysis on collected items to measure the desires to love and be loved yielded two factors which corresponded to classification of the pilot study. In addition, while the desires to love and the desires to be loved were relatively highly correlated each other, the desires to love were positively related to better mental health and negatively related to anxiety over relationship of attachment dimensions (early adult attachment styles) by controlling the desires to be loved. In contrast, the desires to be loved were negatively related to better mental health and positively related to anxiety over relationship of attachment dimensions by controlling the desires to love. These results were discussed in terms of the negativity of excessive desires to be loved.