Identifying Pattern of Relationships between Attachment Styles, Life Satisfaction and Perfectionism in University Students

Background: Life satisfaction is a subjective and unique concept to every human being which constitutes an essential componentof subjective well-being.Objectives: The purpose of the present study was identifying the pattern of relationship between attachment styles, life satisfactionand perfectionism in university students.Methods: The statistical society included all students of Azad university of Roodehen who were studying at this university in 2014- 15 academic year. The sample size was 271 undergraduate students who were selected by stratification random sampling from allfaculties except faculty of education and counseling and also Psychology. The data were collected using life satisfaction scale, collinsand reid’s adult attachment styles and terry and short’s positive and negative perfectionism scale.Results: The findings showed that positive and negative perfectionism variables influence on explanation of life satisfactionchanges. Anxious attachment through negative perfectionism influences directly and indirectly on explanation of life satisfactionchanges. Also avoidant attachment through positive and negative perfectionism influences directly and indirectly on explanationof life satisfaction changes. However, secure attachment neither directly nor indirectly influences on explanation of life satisfactionchanges.Conclusions: The results of this studyhave several important implications for counselorswhoworkwith perfectionism. Counselorsshould consider perfectionism as a multidimensional construct with both healthy and unhealthy dimensions rather than as onlyproblematic construct.

Keywords:

Attachment , Life Satisfaction , Perfectionism