Abstract
Data were acquired from a total of 422 university students with 216 female and 206 male students via Couple Attachment Scale, Stress Coping Styles Scale and Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory. Positive and statistically significant relationships were determined between self-confident approach, optimistic approach and social support approach sub-scales as a result of Pearson Product Moments Correlation Coefficient analysis; whereas a negative and statistically significant relationship was determined between helpless approach and submissive approach sub-scales and self-esteem. It was determined as a result of the One Way MANOVA analysis that couples with secure and insecure attachment differ with regard to ways of coping with stress and self-esteem levels and that couples with secure attachment make use of self-confident approach, optimistic approach and social support approach from among styles of coping with stress, whereas couples with insecure attachment use helpless approach and submissive approach styles and that they have lower self-esteem levels.
Highlights
Attachment and separation are concepts that we face throughout our lives
Findings related with the multivariate ANOVE (MANOVA) test used for determining whether the attachment style variable has a statistically significant effect on the dependent variables or not were included in the final section of the results
The acquired results indicated that there is a positive and statistically significant relationship between self-esteem and self-confident approach, optimistic approach and social support approach from among the styles of coping with stress. It was determined as a result of relationship analysis that there is a negative and statistically significant relationship between self-esteem and helpless approach and submissive approach
Summary
Attachment and separation are concepts that we face throughout our lives. Whether we end up as adults who are able to attach or not depend mostly on our childhood experiences with our mother (Fonagy, 1995; Jellema, 1999). Our subconscious is home to fears about our relations. It is related with whether our brain connects the concept of attachment with “safety, warmness and protection” or with “abandonment, loneliness and fear”. The world of emotions consists solely of happiness and unhappiness. The mother is responsible from reducing the stress of the baby and calming it as well as feeding and warming it. In addition to removal of its unhappiness, the baby needs social relations and human attention from birth (Schneider, 1991). The mother is responsible from calming and relaxing the baby and making it part of the happiness due to the interest and dialogue among people
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