Correlation and comparison of the Relationship Beliefs and Marital Instability Persons with Secure, Insecure-ambivalent, and Avoidance Attachment styles

this study was carried out to investigate and compare the correlation between relationship beliefs and marital instability in married staff with secure, insecure and ambivalent attachment styles. Descriptive-comparative method was applied. The sample was 150 participants selected from married staff of Shahid Beheshty University. The sample completed the Adult Attachment Questionnaire 1 & 2 (AAQ 1 & 2), Relationship Beliefs Inventory (RBI) and Marital Instability Index (MII). The data was analyzed by multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) and Pearson correlation. Findings showed that there is a significant correlation between attachment styles, relationship beliefs and marital instability. The subjects with insecure-ambivalent style had the highest amount of marital instability. With regard to the overall score, no significant difference was seen between triple attachment styles and relationship beliefs, but in the mind reading subscale, the highest score was for secure attachment style and in the belief subscale, the highest score in gender differences was for secure ambivalent style. In the other subscales, the difference was not significant. Also, the results showed there is a significant correlation between relationship beliefs and marital instability.