Investigation of the relationships between female victims of violence and attachment styles, relationship between cognitive distortions and coping attitudes of female university students

In this study, it was aimed to investigate the violence styles and attachment styles, cognitive distortions and coping attitudes of female university students. A total of 417 women participated in the study in 2019, including female university students studying at Istanbul Haliç University. 13 of the women who participated in the study on the basis of volunteering quit the study. A total of 404 women contrib-uted to our study. In addition to the Demographic Form, the scales used on the par-ticipants were; Inventory of Experiences in Close Relationships-II (YIYE-II), Cogni-tive Distortions Scale Related to Relationships, Coping Attitudes Assessment Scale COPE-R were used. Permission has been obtained from the scale owners via e-mail in order to use the scales. The general quality of this research is quantitative research and it is a descriptive and correlational research type. In the research conducted, it was found that cognitive distortions and coping attitudes of the participants in the study predicted 38.1% of anxious attachment and 14.1 of avoidant attachment. As a result of the research conducted, it was concluded that there was a meaningful relationship between YIYE-II, IBSQ and COPE-R scales. Significant relationships were found between the subscales, and this result was found to be consistent with the literature. When the variables in the demographic form and the differentiation status of the subscales were examined; Parents of the participants, their mothers 'upbringing attitudes, fathers' upbringing attitudes, wheth-er or not they are in a romantic relationship, their exposure to violence at any time in their lives, and the behavior of applying to psychiatry or psychologist due to the vio-lence they experience. There was a significant difference when the results were reached.