The relationship attachment styles and early maladaptive schemas with creativity in teen girl students of Qazvin schools

Subject Areas : Journal of Educational Psychology

Kolsum Moradi ¹ , Mohamad reza Jalali ²

1 - MA in clinical psychology
2 - PhD Imam Khumeini International University

Received: 2016-01-17 Accepted : 2016-04-17 Published : 2016-05-21

Keywords: creativity, Attachment Styles, early maladaptive schemas,

Abstract :

This study has been researched aimed to investigate the relationship between attachment styles and early maladaptive schemas and creativity in teen female students in Qazvin city. The study sample include 154 teen female students .The students were selected through multi-stage cluster sampling. In order to collect data, Hazan and Shaver Adult attachment style questionnaire, early maladaptive schemas Yang (short form) and Abedi creativity were used. The research is descriptive and correlational. Statistical methods in this study are used to analyze the data, including Pearsonian   correlation, multiple regression. The results of Correlation coefficients showed that there is a significant negative relationship only between creativity and ambivalent attachment In a way that with Decreasing the scores of students in ambivalent attachment style, their creativity will rise and vice versa. In the case of both secure and insecure attachment style and creativity, there was no significant relationship between them. Also the total score of schemes have a significant negative relationship with creativity at the level of 0.05. Multiple regression analysis (Simultaneous) revealed that disconnection and autonomy variable have the largest share and effect in creativity. In other words, these two variables significantly affect the anticipation of creativity.