Comparing Attachment to God and Identity Styles and Psychological Well-being in Married Teachers: With Regard to Demographic Factors

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to compare attachment to God and identity styles and psychological well-being in married teachers with regard to demographic factors including gender and teaching level. The research method is descriptive and ex-post facto type. The research population involves all married teachers of Mashhad city in year 2013 who were studying in Farhangian university of Khorasan Razavi. 330 people, who were selected by using simple random sampling method, responded to Ryff psychological wellbeing, ISI identity styles and Sim and Loh attachment to God questionnaires. The data were analyzed in descriptive like frequency, average, standard deviation and inference statistic such as independent T-test with SPSS-20 statistic program. The results show that the average scores of attachment to God, psychological well-being and informational identity style have significant difference in male and female teachers (P<0/01). Nevertheless, the average scores of normative and avoidant/diffusive identity styles don’t have significant difference in male and female teachers. Also the results suggested that there is not a significant difference in the average scores of none of research variables among teachers with different teaching level.