이별을 경험한 대학생의 고통감과 이별 후 성장의 관계

The Relationship between Distress and Post-traumatic Growth of University Students Who Experience Breakups: The Moderated Mediation of Deliberate Rumination and Coping Flexibility

This study aimed to identify whether coping flexibility can moderate the mediating effect of deliberate rumination in the relationship between distress and post-traumatic growth of university students Who experienced breakups. Online data approximately 330 University students were analyzed, The moderated mediation effect of deliberate rumination in the relationship between distress and post-traumatic growth was examined. Data were analyzed using SPSS 23.0 program and PROCESS Macro(v.3.1). The results are as follows. First, deliberate rumination has a mediating effect on the relationship between distress after breakups and post-traumatic growth. Second, coping flexibility has a moderating effect on the relationship between deliberate rumination and post-traumatic growth. Third, coping flexibility has a moderated mediating effect through deliberate rumination on the relationship between distress after breakups and post-traumatic growth. Hense, when distress after breakups leads to post-traumatic growth through deliberate rumination, high levels of coping flexibility promotes the effect of deliberate rumination. The results of this study suggest that therapeutic interventions help to increase the level of coping flexibility required after experiencing a breakups.