Relationship between Self- Esteem and Attachment Style

in order to study the relationship between self esteem and attachment style, 100 female university students, completed Self Esteem Inventory (Coopersmith, 1967) and Attachment Style Questionnaire (Hazan & Shaiver, 1987). Self Esteem was positively related to the secure attachment style and negatively related to the avoidant attachment style. A non-significant negative correlation was seem between self-esteem and anxious-ambivalent attachment style. The implications for further studies that include male partici- pants and larger samples are discussed.