Pages: 36-42

Abstract

The objective of this study was to examine the personality traits and attachment styles in students with a traditional marriage. Design of this research is causal-comparative and it includes all Tehran University students with traditional marriages studying in the academic year 2016-2017. Among them, 50 students were selected using cluster sampling method, which 25 of them were female and 25 of them were male. Taking into consideration the factors of gender and education, subjects were matched. The total number of sample was 50 people. NEO’s personality traits questionnaire has the content validity and alpha value of 0.60. In the investigation of attachment styles, Collins and Reid questionnaire with the factor analysis validity and alpha of 0.616 was used. SPSS software was used to analyze the data. Information was examined in two descriptive and inferential statistics parts. In descriptive statistics, mean, frequency, and percentage were used. In addition, inferential statistical methods of ANOVA and multi-variable analysis of variance (MANOVA) were used. There results showed that there was difference between personality traits and attachment styles in students with traditional marriage. In investigating personality traits components, only the component of extroversion became significant. In addition, there was no difference in components of attachment styles.