The Role of Insecurity in Attachment and Fear of Intimacy in Predicting the Desire for Remarriage in Divorced Women

Document Type : Original Article

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1 PhD student in counseling, Department of Counseling, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.

2 Department of Educational Sciences, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.

3 PhD Student in Counseling, Faculty of Humanities, Yazd Azad University. Yazd. Iran.

4 PhD Student in Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Tehran Azad University of Research Sciences. Tehran. Iran.

Abstract

Objective: This study was conducted to investigate the role of Insecurity in Attachment and fear of intimacy in predicting the desire for remarriage in divorced women.

Methodology: This study was a descriptive-correlational study. The statistical population of this study consisted of divorced women in Tehran in 2020 year that among them, 158 people were selected using available sampling and snowball methods through social networks. Data were collected by Marriage Desire and Fear of Intimacy questioners and Adult Attachment Scale. Also, to analysis of data Pearson correlation and multiple regression analysis were used.

Findings: The results showed that fear of intimacy has a negative and significant relationship with the desire to remarry (r = -0.209; p = 0.008). However, anxious and avoidant insecure attachment styles did not show a significant relationship with desire to remarriage. The result of multiple regression analysis showed that Fear of intimacy could explain only 3.8% of changes in remarriage desire among divorced women.

Conclusion: desire and tendency to remarry in divorced women is affected by negative experiences resulting from previous failed marriages that pay attention to the healing of emotional wounds to premarital counseling seems necessary before attempting remarriage.

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History

  • Receive Date: 28 October 2023
  • Revise Date: 07 August 2024
  • Accept Date: 08 August 2024

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