Examining the Relationship of Attachment Styles with Marital Adjustment And Coping Styles among Married University Students

The present study aimed to investigate the relationship of attachment styles with marital adjustment and coping styles among married students of Saravan Azad University. The research method was descriptive-correlational. The population of this research consisted of all married students at Saravan Azad University (N=360) with the sample size of 105 individuals. Research instruments included standard questionnaires (Hazan and Shaver’s Attachment Styles-15 items, Wallace and Locke’s Marital Adjustment-15 items, and Lazarus’s Coping Styles-66 items). Generally, findings revealed a negative significant relationship between marital adjustment and avoidant and ambivalent attachment styles. Moreover, the results also revealed that there was a positive significant correlation between marital adjustment and secure attachment style and there was a negative significant relationship between marital adjustment and direct coping style, distance style and escape-avoidant style. Furthermore, a positive significant relationship was found between marital adjustment and self-control style, social support style, responsibility style, problem-solving style and positive appraisal style. Also, there was no significant relationship between avoidant and ambivalent styles and direct coping style, distance style, problem-solving style and positive appraisal style distance and there was a negative significant relationship between self-control style and avoidant style, social support style and responsibility style.

Keywords: Attachment Styles, Marital Adjustment, Coping Styles, Married Students, Saravan Azad University.