The relationship between childhood trauma attachment styles and cognitive emotion regulation strategies in male heterosexual and homosexual people

The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between childhood traumas, attachment styles, cognitive emotional regulation strategies in heterosexual and homosexual individuals. The sample groups are consist of 150 homosexual and 150 heterosexual individuals that have used to lived in İstanbul and identified themshelves as male. In this research, in addition to personal information Questionnaire prepared by the researcher, Relationship Scale Questionnaire, Childhood trauma scales, cognitive emotion regulation Questionnaire have been applied. The collected data has analized with IBMM SPSS Statistics 24 Program. Mann Whitney U test, Multifactorial Variant Analysis have been used for the determination of the differantiation. Spearman Correlation Analysis has been used to determine the relationship between the scales. Hypothesis have been examined in the light of the obtained data. The results of this research have pointed out that, there has been a significant relationship between childhood traumas, cognitive emotion regulation and attachment styles. In addition, significant differences have been shown between homosexual and heterosexual groups responses. It has obvious that there have been missings in literature at clinical subjects in sexual orientation cases.