Relationship Between Attachment Styles and Solitude Feeling in Runaway and Non-runaway Girls in Tehran

Abstract

The present survey was performed with objective of identifying the relationship of attachment styles and solitude feeling in runaway and non-runaway girls. The research sample was include 60 non-runaway girls and 60 runaway girls with age ranging from 14 to 16 years old that are selected with stage cluster sampling and available sampling respectively, they were handed to fill The UCLA loneliness scale and Revised Adult Attachment Scale questionnaire. Finally, questionnaires data and demographic information have been used for analysis. The results demonstrated that relationship between the solitude feeling with avoidant and ambivalent attachment styles in both groups is positive and significant and with secure attachment style is negative and significant (P<0/01). This means that securely attached persons suffer from less solitude feeling.