Arts & Humanities Journal

Title: Comparative study of Aggression and Academic Adjustment based of Attachment styles

Abstract:

The purpose of the present research is to investigate the amount of agression and educational adjustment in different forms of attachments (secure, avoidance and anxious ambivalent). In this stud, 231 students (202 girls and 29 boys) participated in the research from different majors of Azad University of Karaj. The subjects were asked to fill out the Buss–Perry aggression scale, Baker & Siryk academic adjustment questionnaire and Hazan and Shaver's adult attachment questionnaire. The results showed that the amount of total aggression and also sub scales of physical aggression, hostility and anger was significantly lower in secure students compared to the insecure ones. But there was no difference between the verbal subscale among secure and insecure students. Also amount of academic adjustment among the subjects was significantly higher among the secure students compared to the insecure ones. We can conclude from other results of the study that there is a significant difference between aggression in ambivalent-anxious, secure, and avoidance groups, in a way that amount of aggression among the students having ambivalent attachment is higher compared to secure and avoidance attachment students. According to the findings of the present research we can conclude that we should consider interfering factors such as attachment to achieve educational adjustment and decreases aggression among the students.