The Relationship between the Attachment Styles, Responsibility and Forgiveness and Marital Commitment

The present study aims at investigating the relationship between attachment styles, responsibility and forgiveness and marital commitment. It was done through a descriptive method. The statistical population of the study was composed of married personnel in university of medical sciences in Sari city. 256 of them were selected through random selection. To gather data, we used four questionnaires as follows: Adams and Jones Marital Commitment Questionnaire, Hazan and Shaver Attachment Scale Questionnaire, Harrison Gough’s Responsibility Scale, and Ehteshamzade et al Interpersonal Forgiveness Scale. To analyze data, we used descriptive statistics and Pearson’s correlation coefficient as well as multi-variable regression simultaneously. The findings showed that there is a meaningful relationship between attachment styles, responsibility and forgiveness and marital commitment. The results of regression analysis showed that among three subscales of attachment styles, safe attachment style plays a greater role in predicting the variable of marital commitment. Besides, responsibility and forgiveness are able to predict marital commitment. In general, the findings of the study suggest the important and influential role of the variables of attachment, responsibility and forgiveness in predicting marital commitment.