A Study on the Relationship Between Attachment Style, Social Anxiety, and Loneliness

This was a quantitative study conducted on a college population of 120 young adults age between 17 to 22, which include both males and females. It was a descriptive research design which used scales called Collins reversed, adult attachment, scale, UCLA loneliness, scale, liebowitz social scale. Used SPSS Analyse and the results where that there were significant correlation between attachment style, social anxiety and loneliness, specifically, anxiety, attachment style and social anxiety are positively correlated while depending attachment style has a negative correlation with anxiety, attachment style and a positive correlation with attachment style. Loneliness is positively correlated with anxiety and dependent attachment style, but negatively correlated with close attachment style. Further, there are significant differences between genders and anxiety, attachment style and social anxiety, female scoring higher on average than males but no significant difference in close attachment style, dependent attachment style or loneliness