The role of attachment styles in students' communication skills and educational status

The present study aims to identify the role of attachment styles in students' communication skills. It was an applied and descriptive survey using questionnaire for data collection. The statistical population of the study included all students of the Islamic Azad University of Tehran, and the multi-stage cluster sampling method was used for selection of participants. The variables of attachment styles were considered in three dimensions: safety, avoidance, and divergence, which were evaluated through the standard questionnaire of Collins and Reid (1990). In order to measure communication skills in the present study, we used Quinn Dam's standard questionnaire (2004) and Chari and Fadakar's (2005) five dimensions of the ability to receive and send messages, emotional control, listening, insight into the process of communication, and communication with decisiveness. Findings from the study showed that there was a negative and significant relationship between safe attachment style and communication skills (the dimension of the ability to receive and send messages), emotional control, and listening skills. There was also a strong negative and significant relationship between avoidance attachment style and communication skills and its subscales. There was a strong positive and significant relationship between two-way / anxiety attachment style and communication skills and its subscales.