依恋风格与互联网使用程度的元分析

Attachment Styles and Degree of Internet Use: A Meta-Analysis

本研究通过对已有的关于依恋风格和互联网使用程度的文献进行回顾,运用依恋理论从人际关系的角度解释了互联网使用程度中的个体差异。此外,不同类型的互联网使用(社交使用和娱乐使用)、年龄和性别被认为是依恋风格和互联网使用程度的调节因素。通过文献检索,共纳入合格文献36篇(N = 14,130),有109个效应量。结果表明,依恋焦虑与互联网使用程度呈正相关,而依恋回避与互联网使用程度相关不显著。互联网使用类型只调节了依恋回避和互联网使用程度之间的关系。年龄调节了依恋焦虑和互联网使用程度之间的关系,而性别调节了依恋回避和互联网使用程度之间的关系。并且,本文讨论了研究的意义和局限性。

Through a quantitative review of existing literature on attachment styles and degree of Internet use, this meta-analysis applied attachment theory to explain individual differences in the degree of Internet use from the perspective of interpersonal communication. In addition, different types of Internet use (social use and entertainment use), age and gender were considered as moderators of attachment styles and degree of Internet use. Our meta-analysis was based on 36 studies involving 14,130 participants with a total of 109 effect sizes. The results show that attachment anxiety is positively correlated with the degree of Internet use, while attachment avoidance is not significantly correlated with the degree of Internet use. Types of Internet use only moderate the relationship between attachment avoidance and degree of Internet use. Age moderated the relationship between frontal attachment anxiety and degree of Internet use, while gender only moderated the relationship between attachment avoidance and degree of Internet use. The implications and limitations of the research are discussed.