Adult Separation Anxiety, Personality and Attachment Styles- An Exploratory Study among Young Adults

Abstract

The study sought to evaluate the relationship between separation anxiety, personality and attachment styles among adults and aimed to explore gender differences in variables. The sample size taken was 129, (49 males and 80 females), among the college students staying in hostels, paying guests etc. Adult Separation Anxiety Questionnaire-ASA-27, Big Five Inventory (BFI), Measure of Attachment Styles (MOAS) had been used to measure separation anxiety, personality and attachment style. The findings indicated that adult separation anxiety has a significant relationship with extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness and neuroticism, therefore has a negative correlation. findings that adult separation anxiety has a significant relation with ambivalent attachment style, therefore there is a positive correlation. The findings also indicated that there was no difference in adult separation anxiety, personality and attachment styles among males and females and adult separation anxiety has an influence on personality and attachment styles.