Attachment style and quality of life among managers : A comparative study

Pages: 1197-1202
Rimpy Monga and Sunita Malhotra (Department of Psychology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana)

One of the most important issues facing the twenty-first century behavioral scientist is to gain understanding the quality of life and factors affecting it among employees’ of multinational companies. In the recent years, the level of employee’s quality of life has changed tremendously as they are under constant pressure to achieve higher targets. Thus, the identified factors could be affecting the level of employee’s quality of life are their attachment style. The present investigation was carried out with the main aim to compare different hierarchical levels of management on attachment style and quality of life..A sample of 300 employees working in various multinational IT companies located in NCR Delhi, Gurgaon, and Noida were selected for the presents study. Attachment style questionnaire [ASQ; Fraley, Waller and Brennen (2000)] and world health organization – quality of life [WHO QOL BREF; World Health Organization (1996)] was administered on the sample. For the significance of mean differences of higher , middle and lower management levels of employees one-way ANOVA, post-hoc test was undertaken , t-test was employed for the comparison between secure and fearful attachment style for the Quality of life. Results clearly shows that three groups of management categorized on the hierarchy levels significantly differ on attachment related anxiety and attachment related avoidance. Participants from different hierarchy level shows significant group differences on domains of quality of life physical , psychological , social and environmental. Employees at higher management significantly differ on attachment related anxiety and attachment related avoidance as compared to middle and lower level managers whereas, no significant difference has been reported between middle and lower level managers. Results reveals that individuals with secure attachment style found to be high on physical , psychological , social and environmental QoL.