Comparison of Attachment Styles, Resiliency and Social Capital in the Spouses of Martyrs, Veterans and Normal People; A Case Study of Ardabil City

Copyright© 2018, ASP Ins. This open-access article is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License which permits Share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and Adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material) under the Attribution-NonCommercial terms. [1] Evaluation of psychiatric problems among war-related bilateral upper limb amputees [2] Impacts and implications of social-demographic immigration of imposed war in Iranian society [3] Psychiatric symptoms in chemical and somatic combat veterans [4] Relationship between spiritual health with quality of life veterans and disabled Birjand [5] Correlation between general health and quality of life in caregivers of veterans with spinal cord injury [6] Relationship between attachment styles and the resiliency amount of veterans wives [7] Assessment of relationship quality of life and coping skills in spouses of chemical devotees with pulmonary complications due to sulfur mustard in Tehran in 2006 [8] Child-parent relationship therapy for adoptive families [9] Effect of attachment on early and later development [10] Romantic love conceptualized as an attachment process [11] Fostering security? A meta-analysis of attachment in adopted children [12] An investigating the relationship between attachment styles and defense mechanisms [13] Overcoming the odds: High risk children from birth to adulthood [14] Comparison of personality traits and attachment style in mothers of children with disturbed self-deprivation and mothers of normal children [15] Effects of resilience on mental health and life satisfaction [16] Development of a resilience fostering program against stress and its impact on quality of life components in parents of children with mild intellectual disability [17] The capital of the family, the foundation stone of social capital [18] Comparison of the mental status of working wives of disabled veterans with their spouse working in normal people [19] Research methods in psychology and educational sciences [20] Ardabil: Mohaghegh Ardabili Publication [21] Development of a new resilience scale: The Connor-Davidson resilience scale (CD-RISC) [22] Social Capital: Trust, Democracy and Development [23] The effectiveness of resilience and stress management training program on psychological well-being, meaning of life, optimism, and satisfaction of life in female-headed households [24] A dimensional approach to measuring social capital: Development and validation of a social capital inventory [25] Social ties and mental health [26] Social capital: Its origins and applications in modern sociology [27] The role of social capital in promoting a healthy lifestyle among people with coronary artery disease Aims War is a complex social event that affects institutions and social life. The purpose of this study was to compare the attachment styles, resilience and social capital in the spouses of witness, veterans and normal people. Instruments & Methods This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in 2016 among the spouses of witness, veterans and normal people in Ardabil city. Using cluster sampling, 135 people (45 people in each group) were selected as sample. For data collection, Avdnhavn Attachment Questionnaire, Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale and Social Capital Questionnaire based on the Nahapit and Ghoshal model were used. The data were analyzed by Manova test and LSD test, using SPSS 16 software. Findings There was no significant difference among three groups in secure attachment (F=0.123; p=0.884) and avoidance attachment (F=0.122; p= 2.136), but there was a significant difference among fearful attachment scores (F=3.164; p=0.045). Also, there was a significant difference among three groups in resilience scores (F=3.770; p=0.026) and social capital scores (F=4.715; p=0.011). Conclusion The fearful attachment style of veterans’ spouses is more common than normal spouses, but other attachment styles are the same in all three groups. Also, the level of resilience and social capital are different in three groups; So that the resilience of spouses of normal people is higher than veterans’ spouses. The spouses of witness and veterans comparing to normal spouses have higher social capital. A B S T R A C T A R T I C L E I N F O