Correlation of attachment styles interpersonal cognitive distoptions and marital adjustment on married i̇ndividuals

This study aims to explain marital adjustment for married couples with cognitive distortions, attachment styles and some demographic variables related to relationships. The study's work group consists of married 138 women and 67 men, total 205 people living in Istanbul. Participants were given, Experience Scale II at Close Relationships to measure attachment styles, Cognitive Distortions Scale at Relationships to determine cognitive distortions, Marital Adjustment Scale to learn marital adjustment and personal information form to learn demographic information. In research analysis, t-test was used to compare quantitative continuous data between two independent groups and One way Anova test was used to compare quantitative continuous data between more than two independent groups. The Scheffe test was used as a complementary post-hoc analysis to determine the differences after the Anova test. Pearson correlation and regression analysis were applied between the continuous variables of the research. As a result of the analyses made, it is found that participants who evaluated their marriages as compatible or incompatible, differed in terms of marital adjustment and anxiety and avoidance of attachment; compatible gained higher marital adjustment and lower attachment avoidance and anxiety scores. A decrease in marital adjustment is seen among participants consisting of married individuals as avoidance of intimacy, one of the cognitive distortion sub-dimensions, increases. It was observed that age, duration of marriage and having a child affect marital adjustment; while gender is not a significant predictor. Key Words: Attachment Styles, Interpersonal Cognitive Distortions, Marital Adjustment