• Himanshi Miglani
• Dr. Jincy Cherian

Hardiness is a personality trait or an ability to adjust to unexpected circumstances in life under stress. The purpose of the paper is to examine the effect of anxious attachment style and avoidant attachment style on hardiness among college students. The sample consists of 243(133 Anxious Attachment and 110 Avoidant Attachment) college students ranging between the age of 18-26. The scale used are The Adult Attachment Questionnaire (Simpson 1992) & A Short Hardiness Scale (Bartone 2007). Pearson product moment correlation and linear regression analysis was used to examine the contribution of the predictor variables on the criterion variable. The result showed that there was negative correlation between the predictor variable and the criterion variable. There was significant relationship between the predictor and criterion variable.

Attachment styles, Anxious Attachment, Avoidant Attachment, Hardiness, College Students

"EFFECTS OF ATTACHMENT STYLES ON HARDINESS AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 5, page no.e720-e727, May-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2405485.pdf

"EFFECTS OF ATTACHMENT STYLES ON HARDINESS AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 5, page no. ppe720-e727, May-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2405485.pdf