TITLE:
Investigating the Relationship between Attachment Styles and the Manner of Mobile Phone Usage among Iranian Students
AUTHORS:
Hoseini Shadi, Toozandehjani Hassan
KEYWORDS:
Attachment Styles, Mobile Phone
JOURNAL NAME:
Social Networking,
Vol.6 No.2,
April
30,
2017
ABSTRACT: The present study is an applied research in terms of purpose and a descriptive and correlational research in terms of the method of data collection, which has been conducted to examine the relationship between attachment styles and the manner of using the mobile phone. The statistical population of this study comprised male and female students studying at the undergraduate level of Islamic Azad Unidersity of Neyshabur (Department of Humanities) in the academic year 2013-2014. The statistical sample included 300 individuals from these students who were selected through stratified random sampling. Hazan and Shaver’s Adult Attachment Questionnaire (AAQ) and a researcher-made Mobile Phone Questionnaire was used to collect the data. The results indicated that there was a significant relationship between the manner of using mobile phone and its dimensions with attachment styles.