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The Relationship between Attachment Style and Negative Perfectionism with Exam Anxiety of Students

Morteza Tarkhan, Mehran Javadi Alinezhad
Abstract

This research is conducted to study the relationship between attachment style and negative perfectionism with exam anxiety of male students. The research method was correlation and the samples of this research were 160 male students of high school who suffered from exam anxiety. The research tool included Hazen and Shiver’sattachmentquestionnaire, protectionist questionnaire of Najjarian et al. and anxiety questionnaire of Abolghasemi et al. Analyzing the data, correlation coefficient and step-by-step regression analysis were used. The correlation efficiency indicated that there is a significant positive relation between unsecure attachment (ambivalent, avoidance) and negative perfectionist with exam anxiety. There is a significant negative relation between secure attachment and exam anxiety (P˂0.01). Regression analysis showed that unsecure and ambivalent attachment style, unsecureavoidance, securestyle, and negative completion determined 5.43, 3.88, 3.24, 10.49 percent respectively and totally 23.04 percent of common variance of exam anxiety of students. The result of this research in convergence with research findings indicate that attachment style (ambivalent, avoidance, secure) and negative perfectionism has determinant role in the amount of male students anxiety.

 

Keywords: Attachment Styles (Ambivalent, Avoidance, Secure), Negative Perfectionism, Exam Anxiety

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