To explore the relationship between attachment styles, personality predispositions and loneliness among emerging adults

Authors

Kashish Student Department of psychology , Amity university Mohali Punjab , India
Dr Supriya Assistant Professor of Department of Psychology , Social Sciences, Amity University , Mohali Punjab, India
Dr Jyoti Mishra Assistant Professor of Department of Political science , Social sciences, Amity university , Mohali Punjab, India

loneliness, emerging adults, big five personality, attachment styles, personality

The present study examined the relationship between attachment styles, personality

predispositions, and loneliness among young adults. The sample consisted of 160 participants

aged between 18 and 25 years. Participants were recruited via convenience sampling. The

research design was cross-sectional. The data collection was measured using the Revised Adult

Attachment Scale (RAAS), Mini-IPIP Scale and UCLA Loneliness Scale (Version 3). The results

showed that: several significant between attachment style, personality inventory, and loneliness

correlations were identified; the attachment close was A lot correlated with extraversion and

Quite a bit negatively correlated with loneliness, while attachment anxiety was Much positively

correlated with extraversion, Quite a bit negatively correlated with neuroticism and Much

positively correlated with loneliness; personality inventories of extraversion, agreeableness, and

conscientiousness were A lot negatively correlated with loneliness whereas neuroticism and

openness were not A lot correlated with loneliness. Overall the hypotheses were only partially

supported.