Adult Attachment styles and Leadership Orientations Among university students

Abstract

The present study aims to explore adult attachments styles and leadership orientations among university students. The current study focuses on the influence that attachment styles have on various aspects of human lives, specifically for occupational settings. Therefore, this study attempts to discover adult attachments styles and leadership orientations among university students. This study was conducted on 300 participants (150 females and 150 males) accompanied from different universities. Purposive sampling method was used to identify university students whom are the target population of this study. The quantitative approach was used to conduct this study. The Leadership Orientation Instrument (LOI)-Self (Bolman and Deal, 1990) and Revised Adult Attachment Scale - Close Relationships Version (Collins, 1996) were used for conducting this research. Results were analyzed through SPSS 22 version which showed that there was not a statistically significant effect of adult attachments styles on leadership orientations i.e. p>0.05.