Investigating the mediating role of self-esteem in the relationship between attachment styles and emotional disability among married female   education employees

Bozorgmehr, Sima; Jajarmi, Hamed; Nouri, Jafar

doi:10.22034/necsbm.2025.525419.1123

Investigating the mediating role of self-esteem in the relationship between attachment styles and emotional disability among married female education employees

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Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Sima Bozorgmehr ¹

Hamed Jajarmi ²

Jafar Nouri ³

¹ Department of Psychology, Bojnourd branch Islamic Azad University, Bojnourd , Iran.

² Astan Mehr Razavi Consulting Center, Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran.

³ Ph.D in Psychology, Department of Psychology, Mashhad teacher training university. Shahid Beheshti branch, Mashhad, Iran

10.22034/necsbm.2025.525419.1123

Abstract

The aim of this study was to determine the mediating role of mediating the role of self-esteem in the relationship between attachment styles and emotional disability of married female education employees of District 7 of mashhad.This research was a structural equation. Also, its sampling method was available in a way that 210 married women were educated in District 7 of Mashhad.The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Questionnaire, Toronto Emotional Disability, and Collins and Reed Attachment Styles were used to collect data.Also, research for data analysis using path analysis correlation method in structural equation modeling (SEM) has been used.After modifying the model, it was shown that avoidant attachment style has a significant relationship with self-esteem and emotional disability as well as self-esteem with emotional disability.Also, avoidant attachment style reduces self-esteem and increases emotional disability, and also reduces self-esteem reduces emotional disability.

Keywords

Attachment Styles

Self-esteem

Emotional inability

Female education employees

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