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

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 ۲۰۲۰ year that among them, ۱۵۸ 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 = -۰.۲۰۹; p = ۰.۰۰۸). 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 ۳.۸% 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.

کلیدواژه ها:

Insecurity in Attachment ، Fear of Intimacy ، Desire to Remarriage ، Divorced women