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Monajati S, Amini N, Jaafarinia G. (2022). Predicting the Tendency to High-Risk Behaviors Based on Psychological Flexibility and Attachment Styles in Male and Female High School Students. IEEPJ. 4(1), 92-102. doi:10.52547/ieepj.4.1.92
URL: http://ieepj.hormozgan.ac.ir/article-1-348-en.html
1- PhD student, Department of Psychology, Bushehr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bushehr, Iran
2- Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Bushehr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bushehr, Iran , amini_n2010@yahoo.com
3- Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Bushehr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bushehr, Iran
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The aim of this study was to predict the tendency to high-risk behaviors based on psychological flexibility and attachment styles in male and female high school students. This research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive and correlational in terms of data collection. The statistical population of this study was all high school students in the academic year 2020-2021. Using cluster random sampling method, 300 people were selected as a sample. In the descriptive statistics section, the mean, standard deviation, minimum and maximum scores and in the inferential statistics section, Pearson coefficient and multiple regression have been used. The results indicated that the flexibility and secure attachment have a negative and significant relationship with the tendency to high-risk behavior and the avoidant attachment and ambivalent attachment have a positive and significant relationship with the tendency to high-risk behavior. Also flexibility (p <0.05, β = -0.17), secure attachment style (p <0.05, β = -0.19), avoidance attachment style (p <0.05, = 0.18) β) and ambivalent attachment style (p <0.05, β = 0.13) were significant predictors for the tendency to high-risk behavior.
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Type of Study: Original | Subject: Educational Psychology
Received: 2021/07/5 | Accepted: 2021/08/3 | Published: 2022/03/1

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