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    Attachment styles, childhood trauma, relationship satisfaction, and mental health in drug addicts
    (UMT, Lahore, 2024) Areeba Ammar; Dania Murad; Tehreem Jawad
    This research aimed to study attachment styles, childhood trauma, relationship satisfaction and mental health in drug addicts. The correlational study consisted of drug addicts N=200 from various government and private rehabilitation centers with age range 18 – above (M=29.4, SD=8.4) through non probability purposive sampling. The measurement tools Attachment Style Questionnaire, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, physical neglect, and emotional neglect), Relationship Satisfaction Scale, and Mental Health Continuum Scale (emotional wellbeing, social wellbeing, and physical wellbeing) in addition to the demographic information sheet were used. The findings revealed that childhood trauma had a strong positive correlation with physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, and physical neglect. Furthermore, there was a significant positive correlation between childhood trauma and mental health including emotional wellbeing, social wellbeing, and physical wellbeing. Multiple linear Regression analysis showed that age and relationship satisfaction were the significant positive predictors of mental health in drug addict. Independent sample t-test analysis showed that drug addicts from joint family experienced more trauma, sexual abuse, and emotional neglect during childhood, in comparison with nuclear family system. One way ANOVA revealed that people with avoidant attachment styles experienced more trauma and bad mental health and birth order had no effect on childhood trauma, relationship satisfaction, and mental health. The results of the current study represented an important extension of prior findings and present empirical research provided grounds to more studies in future.