investigate the moderating role of attachment styles in marital satisfaction and quality of life.in employed married women in Rasht city

Sepideh Tavana¹ Fatemeh Rangrazian²

1) Departement of Psychology,Ayatollah Amoli Branch ,
2) Departement of Psychology, tonekabon Islamic Azad University,Iran, Mazandaran. Email:

IOI Code : XYBB-ZHECH
Publication : 3rd International Conference On Research Science And Technology(3rstconf.com)
Abstract :
    This study aimed to investigate the moderating role of attachment styles in marital satisfaction and quality of life. This study was a descriptive study with correlation pattern. The population included 514 cases of all married women working in the laboratories of Rasht. A sample size is 200 married working women that selected with stratified random sampling from among 8 laboratories. Hazan & Shaver (1987) Attachment Style, Olson et al (1989) marital satisfaction and War & Sherbourne (1992) quality of life questionnaire was used to collect data.diriection for data analysis and correlation and regression analysis were used.. The results showed that moderating role of attachment styles in marital satisfaction and quality of life is significant. Out of the predictor variables, avoidant attachment style had the most important contribution to the prediction of marital satisfaction and quality of life. There is a relationship between attachment styles and marital satisfaction of married working women (p<0.01). There is a relationship between attachment styles and quality of life of married working women (p<0.01). Conclusion: The results of this study can be said that attachment styles can be considered as variables influencing satisfaction and quality of life and these results should be considered in the training program for couples.

Keywords : attachment styles marital satisfaction quality of life