Attachment style and relationship satisfaction among early adults

Abstract

The study investigates the connection between attachment style and relationship satisfaction. Attachment theory suggests that early experiences with caregiver's shape individuals' attachment styles, influencing their behaviors and emotions in adult relationships. The present study focuses on three main attachment styles close attachment, depend attachment and anxious attachment. Measures of attachment styles (RAAS) and relationship satisfaction (RAS) were completed by a sample of (120) participants both genders combined. The statistical techniques used were correlation and one way ANOVA. The results revealed negative correlation between anxious attachment style and relationship satisfaction. Also, there is no difference in attachment style and relationship satisfaction based on gender. And there is no difference in relationship satisfaction based on work status.