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Abstracto

The relationship between attachment style and self-efficacy beliefs with regard to sex

Farzad Amiri, Shukuhsadat Banijamali, Hossein Ahadi and Yusef Ahadi

The main objective of the article is to examine the relationship between attachment style and self-efficacy beliefs of students with regard to sex. To this end, three hundred and sixty nine students were chosen by multi-stage cluster sampling, from different schools, and examined by Hazan and Shaver (1978) adult attachment styles test tools, and self-efficacy questionnaire of Sherer and colleagues (1982). The collected data were analyzed using two-way variance analysis. Results showed the effect of gender was not significant, but the effect of attachment styles is significant. Attachment styles explained 5.3% percent efficacy variance. Late results of the comparison showed that there are significant differences between self-efficacy of people with safe styles and self-efficacy of people with avoidant styles on one hand and self-efficacy of people with safe styles and self-efficacy of people with ambivalent style on the other hand. In addition, people with safe styles have more of self-efficacy than people with avoidant and ambivalent styles. The findings suggest that individuals with higher levels of self-efficacy are securely attached. According to the study, the interaction between gender and attachment style is not significant.