The Relationship Between Identity Statuses and Attitudes Toward Intimately Relations Considering the Gender Factor

• Published in: Procedia, social and behavioral sciences Vol. 46; pp. 899 - 903
• Main Authors: Keybollahi, Toloue, Mansoobifar, Mohsen, Mujembari, Adis Kraskian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 2012
• Subjects: Attitudes of Intimately Relationships; Identity status; Sex; Identity status; Attitudes of Intimately Relationships; Sex
• ISSN: 1877-0428; 1877-0428
• DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.05.220

The present research has been carried out with the objective of studying the relation between identity status and Attitudes of Intimately relationships considering the role of sex among university students, hi retrospective study, 210 university students (62 males and 148 females) selected among university students of Alborz Province using multistage random sampling method, answered questionnaires on status of the young identity and Intimacy Attitudes Scale. The finding obtained from the average test of two independent groups, significance testing of Pearson's product moment correlation coefficient, multivariate analysis regression, showed that achievement identity in females and diffusion identity and prohibited identity in males are higher. There is direct correlation between Attitudes of Intimately relationships with achievement identity and counter-relation with moratorium and prohibited identities. And achievement, moratorium, and prohibited identities have an effective role in Attitudes of Intimately relationships.