A Study of the relationship between personality traits and attachment styles with sensation seeking of the operational forces of a military organization

Background and Research has shown that sensation-seeking is associated with the selection of adventure and high-risk occupations. Hence, this study has been conducted to investigate the relationship between personality traits and attachment styles with sensation-seeking.
The population consisted of all the operational forces in a military organization in Alborz Province in 2015-2016. The purposive sampling method was used to select a sample of 120 individuals. The instruments included the Zuckerman Sensation-Seeking Questionnaire, the McCrae and Costa Five-Factor Personality Scale and the Collins and Reid Attachment Styles Questionnaire. The obtained data were concurrently analyzed using Pearson correlation and regression analysis.
The results showed that personality traits and attachment styles have a significant relationship with sensation-seeking. That is, the variables neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience and ambivalent attachment style have a positive, significant relationship (p Considering the results of this study, it is suggested that some plans and approaches are employed to assess the personality traits and attachment styles so that the talented people can be identified and recruited and the functioning of organizations can be improved.