TITLE:
The Prediction of Social Problem-Solving Skills Based on Birth Order and Attachment Styles
AUTHORS:
Khadijeh Abolmaali, Leila Keivan, Bita Ajilchi
KEYWORDS:
Social Problem-Solving Skills; Attachment Styles; Birth Order
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Applied Sociology,
Vol.4 No.1,
January
23,
2014
ABSTRACT:
The purpose of this research was to predict social problem-solving
skills in two dimensions (functional and dysfunctional), based on birth order
and attachment styles in university students. For the study, 234 students were
randomly selected at Azad University in the Science & Research Branch, who
completed two questionnaires: Hazen & Shaver’s Attachment Styles Inventory
(AAI) and D’Zurilla et al.’s Social Problem Solving Skills Inventory-Revised
(SPSI_R). Data were analyzed with
multiple regression and MANOVA tests. The results revealed that avoidant and
anxious attachment styles had significant and positive relationship with
dysfunctional social problem solving, and had significant and negative relationship with functional social problem
solving skills; and birth order significantly predicted dysfunctional social problem solving. Also, a comparison of the first and last
children showed that a significant difference existed between the mean of
first and last children in avoidant attachment style (first children were
higher than that of last children). But there is no significant
difference between first and last children in the dimensions of social
problem-solving skills.