Relationship between self-esteem and attachment style

Subject Areas : روان درمانگری

Zohreh  Sayadpour ¹ (Islamic Azad University South Tehran Branch)

Received: 2015-06-06 Accepted : 2015-06-06 Published : 2007-06-22

Keywords: attachment style, university student, self esteem,

Abstract :

In order to study the relationship between self esteem and attachment style, 100 female university students, completed Self Esteem Inventory (Coopersmith, 1967) and Attachment Style Questionnaire (Hazan & Shaiver, 1987). Self Esteem was positively related to the secure attachment style and negatively related to the avoidant attachment style. A non-significant negative correlation was seem between self-esteem and anxious-ambivalent attachment style. The implications for further studies that include male participants and larger samples are discussed.