The Relationship between Attachment to God and Identity Styles with Psychological Well-being in Married Teachers

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to examine the relationship between attachment to God and identity styles with psychological well-being in married teachers. The research method is descriptive and correlation type. The population of the current study includes all married teachers of Mashhad city in year 2013 who were studying in Farhangian university of Khorasan Razavi. 330 people were selected as the sample by using the simple random sampling method. In the current study, the three Ryff psychological wellbeing, ISI identity styles and Sim and Loh attachment to God questionnaires were used. The data were analyzed in descriptive such as frequency, average, standard deviation and inference statistic like Pearson correlation with SPSS-20 statistic program. The results indicate that attachment to God has a positive significant relationship with psychological well-being and all its 6 dimensions involving self Acceptance, positive Relations with others, autonomy, environmental mastery, purpose in life, and personal growth (P<0/01). Also, the informational identity style has a positive significant relationship with psychological wellbeing and its 6 dimensions (P<0/01). Nevertheless, the normative and avoidant/diffusive identity styles have negative significant relationship with psychological wellbeing and its 6 dimensions (P<0/01).