a study of attachment styles and religious attitudes as predictors of success or failure of marital relationship

aim and background: this study was aimed to investigate the possibility of predicting success or failure in marital relationships according to adult attachment styles and religious attitudes. method and materials: this was a case-control study. the sample consisted of 49 divorce-seeking and 52 intact couples. the divorce-seeking and intact couples were respectively selected through convenient and cluster randomized sampling methods. all couples were evaluated by shaver- hazan’s adult attachment inventory and azarbayejani’s religious orientation questionnaire. data were analyzed using descriptive statistics as well as discriminate analysis . findings: the results confirmed that secure attachment style and religious attitudes have the power to predict success of the marital relationship. the results confirmed the detailed model presented in this study. conclusions: findings revealed the fact that success or failure in marital relationship can be predicted by the variables of adult attachment and religious attitudes. the results of the prediction shows that when the couples have higher secure attachment style and lower avoidant and ambivalent attachment styles and also have firmer religious attitudes, the probability of success  in their marital relationship will be higher.