The examination of relationship between attachment styles, personality type and self efficacy in young adults

The aim of this study is to determine whether there is a significant relationship between young adults' self-efficacy perception and personality type and attachment style; The aim is to reveal, if any, in which direction the relationship between each other and to what extent they can explain each other through the selected sample. In the research conducted in the relational screening model, young adult individuals constitute the universe of the research. Appropriate sampling method was used in the determination of the sample and 269 young adults in the age group of 18-35 years old were determined as the sample. The data of the research were obtained by Personal Information Form, Attachment Styles Inventory, Eysenck Personality Inventory and Self-Efficacy Inventory. The obtained data were analyzed using SPSS 22.0 statistical analysis package program. At the end of the study, it was found that the extraversion dimension of the personality scale was positively correlated to secure attachment and negatively correlated to avoidant attachment and anxious attachment; lie dimension was negatively correlated with anxious attachment; neuroticism dimension was negatively correlated to secure attachment and positively correlated to avoidant and anxious attachment. In addition, self-efficacy perception was positively correlated with secure attachment, extraversion, lying and psychoticism; and negatively correlated with avoidant attachment, anxious attachment, and neuroticism. As a result of the difference analyzes carried out within the scope of the study, it was determined that the attachment styles of the participants differed significantly according to their gender, marital status, the type of family they grew up in, and whether they were loved or abused by their parents. In addition, it was determined that the personality types of the participants differed significantly according to gender, age, education level, having received love from the mother and violence from the mother and father. Finally, it was concluded that the self-efficacy levels of the participants differed significantly according to gender, marital status and having received love from their mother.