Comparison of Resilience, Mindfulness, and Attachment Styles in High and Low tendency of Students to Addiction

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to compare the resilience, mindfulness and attachment styles in people with high
and low tendency to addiction. The method of this study was causal-comparative. The population of this study
include all students of Allame Tabatabae university in the academic year 2016. From this population, 298
students were selected as sample by using available sampling method and they completed Zargar et.al addiction
susceptibility questionnaire, Conner and Davidson resilience questionnaire, Mindful Attention Awareness Scale
and Collins & read Adult Attachment Style Questionnaire. One-variable analysis of variance was used for data
analyzing. The findings indicated that there are significant differences between the two groups of individuals
with a high and low tendency to addiction in resilience, mindfulness, and attachment Styles (P<0/01).Thus, the
average scores of resiliency, mindfulness and Safe attachment style in group of students with a low tendency to
addiction was more than students with a high tendency to addiction. Also, average scores of avoiding and
ambivalent attachment styles in students with a high tendency to addiction was more than of students with a low
tendency to addiction. So, it can be concluded that the difference between the two groups in these variables can
indicate the importance of the resilience, mindfulness and attachment style, as psychological variables, in the
tendency to addiction of the students.