Past and Future: Predicting the Domain Specific Hope within the Framework of Attachment Styles

The current study aimed to examine the relationship between attachment styles and specific domains hope. The research design was correlational. The population consisted of all newcomer students of Bu-Ali University of Hamedan that recruited by multistage random sampling. Research instruments were Adult Attachment Styles Questionnaire (Hazan & Shaver, 1987) and Adult Domain-Specific Hope Scale (Sympson, 1999). The data was analyzed by Structural Equation Modeling. Results showed that secure attachment style positively and significantly predicted each of five domains specific hope (i.e. social relationship, academic, family life, occupation, and leisure time); but avoidant attachment style did not have any significant relationship with them. Furthermore, ambivalent attachment style could predict family life of domain specific hope negatively and significantly. These results show that hope-inducing to individuals should be considered by their attachment styles, because of that increasing hope of individuals should accomplish in specific domains hope in order to avoid from any problems and facilitates efficacy of the hope-inducing properties.