an investigation of the relationship between attachment styles and personality dimensions

the main purpose of this research was 10 study the relationship between attachment styles (secure. avoidant, ambivalent) and personality dimensions (neuroticism. extraversion, openness, agreeableness. consciousness) . two hundred and thirty three students ( 102 male. 131 female ) from the university of tehran participated in this study . adult attachment inventory (aai) was applied for measuring attachment styles. nee-five factor inventory (neo-ffi) was used 10 measure personality dimensions. analysis of the data involved both descriptive and inferential statistics including mea ns, standard deviations. pear son' s correlation coefficients, and regression analysis. the results revealed that : secure attachment sty le was positively associated with extraversion and agreeableness ; insecure attachment styles (avoidant. ambivalent) were positively correlated with neuroticism, they were also negatively related 10 extraversion; ambivalent attachment style was negatively associated with consciousness avoidant attachment sty le was negatively correlated with agreeableness. personality traits are supposed to be influenced by secure and insecure internal working model s of self and others.