The Mediating Role of Anxiety: The Relationship Between Anxious Attachment Style and Willingness to Move out of Multi-Person Dormitories in Chinese University Students

Shiyao Luo

2025

Abstract

Dormitory life has an important impact on university students, especially in China, where the total population and the number of university students are large. In China, university students usually live in multi-person dormitories based on social common sense and even social norms. Studies have shown that different attachment styles are likely to have different preferences for accommodation, but there are still gaps in research on how the various influence mechanisms work. This study analyzed the direct and indirect effects of anxious attachment style on the willingness to move out of multi-person dormitories, mediated by anxiety state. An online questionnaire was distributed to Chinese university students via Chinese social media. The results show that the anxiety state is the important and significant influence mechanism in achieving the correlation between anxious attachment style and moving-out willingness and was linked closely to both of them. For the direct effect, there was a nearly significant positive correlation between the independent and dependent variables. The results are consistent with the previous research on attachment and housing choices. On this basis, the conclusion obtained in this study regarding the significant correlation of the anxiety state with the variables and effect is important for revealing the way attachment styles work.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Luo S. (2025). The Mediating Role of Anxiety: The Relationship Between Anxious Attachment Style and Willingness to Move out of Multi-Person Dormitories in Chinese University Students. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Applied Psychology and Marketing Management - Volume 1: APMM; ISBN 978-989-758-791-7, SciTePress, pages 170-176. DOI: 10.5220/0014110100004942

in Bibtex Style

@conference{apmm25,
author={Shiyao Luo},
title={The Mediating Role of Anxiety: The Relationship Between Anxious Attachment Style and Willingness to Move out of Multi-Person Dormitories in Chinese University Students},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Applied Psychology and Marketing Management - Volume 1: APMM},
year={2025},
pages={170-176},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0014110100004942},
isbn={978-989-758-791-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Applied Psychology and Marketing Management - Volume 1: APMM
TI - The Mediating Role of Anxiety: The Relationship Between Anxious Attachment Style and Willingness to Move out of Multi-Person Dormitories in Chinese University Students
SN - 978-989-758-791-7
AU - Luo S.
PY - 2025
SP - 170
EP - 176
DO - 10.5220/0014110100004942
PB - SciTePress