Investigating the Relationship between Attachment Styles, Self-efficiency and Academic performance of High School Students of Zahedan City

The present study is aimed at investigating the relationship between attachment styles, and self-efficiency and academic performance of high school students of Zahedan city. The research method of the present study is descriptive-correlation. The population in this study includes all the high school students of Zahedan city in 2012 who were students at the time. The sample size includes 384 individuals which has been selected in the random sampling method. To collect the data, the adult attachment inventory (AAI) and the self-efficiency questionnaire of Sharer et al. were used. The results of the study showed that there is a positive correlation between the academic performance and self-efficiency and that there is a direct and positive relationship between self-efficiency and secure attachment style but that it has an inverse and significant relationship with the insecure ambivalent and insecure avoidant attachment styles; and also it indicated that there is a direct and significant relationship between academic achievement and secure attachment style but that it doesn’t have a significant relationship with ambivalent insecure attachment style and has an inverse and significant relationship with the avoidant insecure attachment style