A correlation study of gender differences in secure attachment style, personality and romantic relationship satisfaction
dc.contributor.advisor | Reid, Rosie | en |
dc.contributor.author | McKeon, Sarah | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-02-05T11:30:00Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-02-05T11:30:00Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.identifier.citation | McKeon, S. (2013). A correlation study of gender differences in secure attachment style, personality and romantic relationship satisfaction. Bachelors Final Year Project, Dublin Business School. | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10788/1646 | |
dc.description.abstract | This study was conducted to assess the possible correlation between personality type, attachment style and relationship satisfaction in a sample of (N=103) participants, (N=33) men and (N=70) women all part-time students at DBS. The participants were asked demographic questions age, gender and relationship status. The Relationship Questionnaire (Bartholomew & Horowitz, 1991) was used to evaluate attachment styles, personality type was examined using the Big Five Inventory (John & Srivastava, 1999), and (Hendrick, Dicke, & Hendrick, 1988) Relationship Assessment Scale was administered to measure romantic relationship satisfaction. A Spearman's rho revealed high romantic relationship satisfaction is significantly correlated with secure attachment (rs(99) = 0.25, p<0.01) and conscientiousness (rs(98) = 0.19, p<0.05). An ANOVA indicated that married individuals have significantly higher relationship satisfaction than non-cohabiting persons (M=3.39, SD=1.02, p=0.018). An independent samples t-test revealed no gender differences in relationship satisfaction. Author keywords: relationship satisfaction, attachment, personality | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Dublin Business School | en |
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dc.subject | Developmental psychology | en |
dc.subject | Psychology | en |
dc.title | A correlation study of gender differences in secure attachment style, personality and romantic relationship satisfaction | en |
dc.type | Final Year Project | en |
dc.rights.holder | Copyright: The author | en |
dc.type.degreename | BA (Hons) in Psychology | en |
dc.type.degreelevel | BA (Hons) | en |