AHnchmcnt Styles, Quality of Friendship, And Psychological Capital in Adolescents

Abstract

The aim of the study was to explore the relationship between attachment styles, friendship quality and psychological capital in adolescents. Moreover, different demographics variables like age, birth order, number of siblings, number of close friends, time spent with friends were also studied along the study variables. A sample of 300 students (aged 12-20) was selected belonging to different schools and colleges in Islamabad. Relationship Questionnaire (Bartholomew & Horowitz, 1991), Inventory of Parent and Peer attachment (Armes don & Greenberg, 1987), McGill Friendship Questionna ire- Friendship Functions (Mendelson & Aboud, 2014) and Psychological Capital Scale (Afzal, 2( 13) were employed to measure the research variab les. Alpha reliabilities were found to be .88 for Inventory of PareI1t & Peer Attachment; .90 for McGill Friendship Questionnaire and .87 for Psychological Capital sca le. Results of the study showed that Peer attachment, secure attachment style, fearful attachment style, age, no of close friends significantly predict Psychological capital [R2 =. 165, R2 =.168]. Furthermore, Friendship Quality, secure attachment style, fearful attachment style, age, no of close friends significantly predict Psychological capital [R2 =.133, R2=. 142]. Correlation analysis showed that peer attachment, friendship quality and psychologiC.al capital have significant positive relationship with (r= .264**) for Psychological Capital and Peer Attachment, (r = .201 **) for Psychological Capital and Friendship Quality and (r = .7 11 **) for Peer Attachment and Friendship Quality. It was also hypothesized that there will be a significant difference on Psychological Capital, Peer Attachment and Friendship Quality across different attachment styles. Results show that there is a statistically significant difference on attachment styles for Psychological Capital, Peer Attachment and Friendship Quality. However, hope show non-significant difference.