Investigation of the relationship between attachment styles and life satisfaction of high school students

INVESTIGATION OF THE RELAIONSHIP BETWEEN ATTACHMENT STYLES AND LIFE SATISFACTION OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTSThis study aims to examine the relation between the attachment styles and life satisfaction of high school students. Independent variables in this study such as class of the school studying at, gender, number of the brothers/ sisters, order of the birth, education status of the mother and the father, working state of the mother and the father, the person caring during at the age of 0-6 considered.This search was completed with 220 female, 182 Male students from high schools which are located in Niğde city and accepted to participate in this search. In order to evaluate the life satisfaction Life Satisfaction Scale, to measure the attachment styles Relation Criterion Poll, and the reach at the general information Personal Information Form were applied. Frequency and percentage of the dispersions related to the datums accumulated via the poll utilized in the extend of the search are found and the conclusions attained are commented in the findings chapter in a table.The analyzed datas which are gained from demographics form are made by the use of SPSS for Windows 13.0. Descriptive statistiscs is used frequencies and percentages and t-test and One-Way ANOVA was used for groups differences. Correlation techniques was used for designating relations between each variables. The research findings show that there is a significant relationship between attachment styles and life satisfaction. Among the variables of gender, class, education status of mother and life satisfaction positive relations was found. Significant differences were found between the number of birth, number of brother/sister, working state of the mother, education status of the father, working state of the father and life satisfaction. Between the varibles of gender, class, education status of the mother and attachment styles a significant difference was found. Significant difference wasn?t found between the variables of the number of birth, number of the brother/ sister, working state of the mother, education status of the father, working state of the father and attachment styles.