Investigating the Relationship between Attachment Style and the Components of Subjective Well-Being and Emotional Creativity in Hamedan Bu-Ali Sina University Students

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between attachment style and the components of subjective well-being and emotional creativity in students in Bu-Ali Sina University and the correlation research method. The research sample consisted of 367 students from Bu-Ali Sina University who were selected by stepwise cluster sampling method. The questionnaires of adult attachment style of Collins and Reed, subjective well being of Diener and Watson and emotional creativity of Avrill were used as the research tool. The data were analyzed after collection based on the research hypotheses and using Pearson’s correlation coefficient, and multiple simultaneous regression. The results showed that there is a significant relationship between attachment styles and subjective well being and its components. Also, a significant positive relationship was shown between secure attachment style and emotional creativity and its components, a significant positive relationship was shown between anxiety attachment style and preparetion emotioncomponent, and a significant negative relationship was shown between avoidant attachment style and novelty component. Multiple regression results showed that the attachment style of students in total predicts 0.11% from the subjective well-being scores and 0.27% from emotional creativity scores. Overall, the results indicated the importance of the role of the attachment style in the subjective well-being and the emotional creativity of the students.