A comparison of attachment styles and creativity among male and female university students

Bowlby has defined attachment as man’s desire to make strong emotional bonds with a special person. Attachment theory has been founded to explain the key aspect of behavior, work and love. Normal exploratory behavior which is one of the characteristics of people having secure attachment, gives the necessary flexibility to the secure person for learning experience. The most important characteristic of man’s thinking is his creativity that makes it possible for him to invent characteristics of creative people is of great notice to the researchers who investigate into creativity fields. Interest in art and scientific issues, curiosity and independence are some of their characteristics. The research aims to investigate and compare attachment styles and creativity among male and female university students. The statistical population includes the freshmen of Payame Noor University of abarkouh (28 females and 28 males) who answered Collins & Read’s (1990) questionnaire of attachment style and Abedi questionnaire of creativity. Analysis findings showed there is no meaningful difference between attachment styles of male and female students, but there is a meaningful difference between creativity degree of the two groups and between attachment style of ambivalent\ anxiety and creativity among males and females. Also, analysis findings in this research based on regression analysis showed that avoidance style of attachment anticipates creativity degree.