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Browsing Department of Psychology by Subject "Attachment styles"

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    Attachment styles and borderline personality traits
    (University of Management and Technology Lahore, 2017) Tariq, Rabia
    A correlation study was carried out to highlight the relationship of attachment styles with Borderline Personality traits, and the mediating role of self-discrepancy between them.331 (151 men) young adults (M=20.65yrs, SD=1.71) participated in the study and responded to three questionnaires. Short form of Experience in Close Relationship-Revised (short ECR-R; Wongpakaran &Wongpakaran, 2012)was used for assessing attachment styles, Selves Questionnaire (SQ; Higgins, Klein & Strauman, 1985) for self-discrepancy, and 20-item Taiwan Version of Borderline Personality Inventory(BPI-T20; Lee, Wen , Yeh, Lee & Chong, 2009) for borderline personality traits. Results revealed significant positive correlation among attachment anxiety, attachment avoidance, borderline personality traits, self actual-ideal discrepancy, self actual-ought discrepancy, others actual-ideal discrepancy and others actual-ought discrepancy, despite of correlation between attachment avoidance and borderline personality traits. Attachment anxiety and avoidance predicted borderline personality traits. Also, self-discrepancy with its subtypes mediated the relationship of attachment anxiety and avoidance with borderline personality traits. The findings will help in prevention and formation of strategies to handle these traits by advancing the understanding.
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    Attachment styles, spirituality and relationship satisfaction in university students
    (University of Management and Technology Lahore, 2017) Nawaz, Mehwish
    The present study investigated the relationship between attachment styles, spirituality and relationship satisfaction in university students. It was hypothesized that there is likely to be a relationship between attachment styles (avoidant, secure, anxious) spirituality and relationship satisfaction. Further, it was hypothesized that spirituality will act as a mediator between relationship satisfaction and attachment styles. The cross sectional research design was used. The sample comprised of 100 (males=50, females=50) in university students age range of 18-25 years were taken from private and public sectors of Lahore. Three assessment measures were used to assess the variables,Adult attachment scale(Collins, Stephen &Read, 1990), Spirituality Index of Wellbeing (Daaleman, &Frey, 2004), Relationship Assessment Scale Scale(Hendrick, 1988) were used. The correlation analysis revealed that avoidant and anxious attachment styles were found to be positively and significantly associated with spirituality and non-significantly correlated with relationship satisfaction. Moreover, the results revealed that spirituality was found to be significantly and negatively relatedwith relationship satisfaction. Furthermore, the mediation analysis revealed that spirituality was found to be significant between relationship satisfaction and anxious and avoidant attachment styles.
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    Psychosexual impact of patriarchal beliefs in women
    (University of Management and Technology, 2017) Tahir, Sana
    In patriarchal system of society women’s sexual experiences are suppressed where as men are entitled to pleasure themselves according to their desires and need (Rudman & Fetterolf, 2014). The purpose of this study is to explore how the internalization of patriarchy affects women’s sexuality and to investigate the influence of attachment styles and self-objectification on sexual satisfaction along with its role between patriarchal beliefs and sexual satisfaction. The sample consisted of 150(age 20-40) married women, selected through a combination of convenient and snowball sampling. The results revealed that patriarchal beliefs is significantly positively associated with attachment styles (anxious and avoidant), and self-objectification. Similarly, there is a significant positive relation between attachment styles (anxious and avoidant) and self-objectification. Furthermore, there is a significant negative correlation between patriarchal beliefs, attachment styles (anxious and avoidant) and sexual satisfaction. In addition, self- objectification significantly negatively correlates with sexual satisfaction. Standardized estimates of direct and indirect effects of the paths revealed that patriarchal beliefs significantly positively predict anxious attachment, self-objectification and sexual satisfaction, while non-significantly predicted avoidant attachment. Self-objectification non-significantly predicted sexual satisfaction. Anxious and avoidant attachment was found to be significant negative predictor of sexual satisfaction. Anxious attachment was found to mediate patriarchal beliefs and sexual satisfaction. The research reveals that women have internalized patriarchal beliefs and it has a direct effect on their sexuality