Parent-adolescent Attachment and Peer Attachment Associated with Hope: A Longitudinal Study of First-year College Students

In order to examine the longitudinal relationships between attachment( father,mother and peer attachment) and hope,this study used the Inventory of Parental and Peer Attachment Questionnaire( IPPA) and the Hope Scale( HS) to investigate the relationship between attachment and hope in a longitudinal first-year college students’ sample( n = 1283). The results showed that:( 1) Parental and peer attachment were positively associated with hope across three time;( 2) The cross-lagged panel models showed that a reciprocal relationship between parental,peer attachment and hope;( 3) Gender difference only appeared in the cross-sectional relationship between peer attachment and hope,which suggested larger correlation between peer attachment and hope for female students than for male students. In conclusion,there were stable cross-sectional correlations between attachments( parental and peer) and hope,and longitudinal reciprocal associations between them.