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    Attachment style, humor style & fear of intimacy in working married men and women
    (University of Management and Technology Lahore, 2017) Amin, Zunaira
    The present study investigated the relationship between attachment style, humor style and fear of intimacy among working married men and women. It was hypothesized that there was likely to be a relationship between attachment style, humor style and fear of intimacy; and humor style would mediate the relationship between attachment style and fear of intimacy. Co relational research design was employed. The purposive convenient sample of 200 working married people including 100 men and 100 women with age range of 25-35 years was drawn from different colleges of Narrowal. Humor Styles Questionnaire (Martin & Dorris, 2003), Attachment Style Questionnaire (Oudenhoven, Hofstra & Bakker, 2003) and Fear of Intimacy Scale (Descutner & Thelen 1991) were used. The results of Pearson product moment correlation revealed significant relationship between attachment styles, humor styles and fear of intimacy. The results of SEM through AMOS revealed that aggressive humor style was found to be a potential mediator between secure attachment styles and fear of intimacy. Results also revealed that men used more adaptive style of humor (affiliative, self enhancing) as compare to women. Humor styles can help people in developing satisfaction in their intimate relationships and help people to manage marriage related issues which may enhance marital stability.