Examining subjective well being according to family functions and attachment styles

The aim of the study is to examine whether there is a significant difference between subjective well being levels according to family functions and adult attachment styles. Family functions categorized as healty and unhealty whereas adult attachment styles categorized as fearful, avoidant, secure and obsessive. Subjective well being calculated under a dimension with the sum of positive affect and life satisfaction minus negative affect. Between the years 2014-2016 totally 696 Ege University Education Sciences Department student joined to surveys. Family Functioning Scale, Positive and Negative Affect Scale, Life Satisfaction Scale and Relationship Scale Survey were used in this study. The data analysed with SPSS 18 using 2 x 4 factorial design ANOVA. According to the results, there is a significant difference between subjective well being levels according to family functionioning to the advantage of healty funtions. Also there is a significant difference between subjective well being levels according to adult attachement styles to the advantage of secure attachement. According to dual comparisons, a significant difference were found just between secure attachment and fearful, avoidant and obsesseve attachments. Significant difference were not found between subjective well being levels according to the combining effect of family funtioning and adult attachement styles. Results were examined according to literature. Results found similar with the literature as healty family functioning and secure attachment increases subjective well being levels, whereas the non significant result of the combining effect of family functioning and attachment styles examined according to other studies which conducted with different variables. Keywords: Subjective Well Being, Family Functioning, Attachment Styles, University Students