The Relationship Between Attachment Dimensions and the Big-Five Factors of Personality from the Dyadic and Individual Approaches

Attachment Theory and the Big-Five Factors of Personality exhibit commona-lities in explaining individual differ-ences. There is a sizeable amount of research which studied the relationship between attachment dimensions and per-sonality factors. The purpose of this research was to study the simple correla- tion between attachment dimensions and personality factors، the relationship between attachment dimensions and personality factors at the individual level، and also the relationship between attachment dimensions and self-perso-nality، spouse’s personality، and spous-e’s attachment dimensions at the couple level. The population of this research included Isfahani couples. The sampling method was available selection. From this population 180 available married persons (90 couples) were selected. The ECR-R and the NEO-FFI were used to collect the required data. To analyze the data، descriptive analysis، simple correl-ation، and hierarchical regression analy-sis (stepwise) were used. The results sh-owed that there is a significant positive relationship between attachment anxiety and self neuroticism، spouse’s neurotici-sm، and spouse’s attachment dimension-ns. Also there is a significant negative relationship between attachment anxiety and spouse’s extraversion. Attachment avoidance has a negative relationship with self extraversion، agreeableness، and conscienti-ousness and spouse’s extraversion. The relationship between attachment avoidance and spouse’s attachment dimensions is positive and significant. At the individual level، attachment anxiety is explained mainly by neuroticism. And attachment avoi-dance is explained by extraversion and agreeableness. At the couple level، attachment anxiety is predicted by self neuroticism and spouse’s attachment av-oidance respectively. Attachment avoid-ance is predicted by self extraversion، spouse’s attachment anxiety، and spo-use’s extraversion. In general، it can be concluded that attachment dimensions are individual and relational charac-teristics.