The relationship between attachment styles and identity style with students' tendency towards social acceptance

This study aims to investigate relationship between attachment styles and identity with social acceptance in teenager students. Therefore 122 teenagers of Khoramdare city selected by randomized cluster sampling method. Participant answered to questionnaires of RAAS, personal identity, and social acceptance. Collected data analyzed by Pearson correlation test and step wise regression. Results showed there is positive and significant relationship between social acceptance and safe attachment styles and there is negative and significant relationship between social acceptance with anxiety and avoidance attachment styles (p < 0.01). There is positive and significant relationship between social acceptance and personal identity (p < 0.01). Results of stepwise regression showed that anxiety attachment styles and identity can determine 51% variance of social attachment. Therefore it can be conclude that attachment styles and personal identity are related and predictor variables ofsocial acceptance.Therefore it can be conclude that attachment styles and personal identity are related and predictor variables ofsocial acceptance.