en ● Psychosocial Health مقاله اصيل پژوهشي Orginal Article <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><span style="line-height:2;"><strong>Background</strong>: This study aims to examine the relationship between addiction in romantic relationships and attachment styles of young people.&nbsp;<br> <strong>Methods</strong>: A total of 456 university students aged 18-24 years participated in this descriptive, cross-sectional and correlational study. Demographic information form, addiction in romantic relationships scale (ARRS) and three-dimensional attachment style scale (TDASS) were used as data collection tools. The independent groups t-test, one-way analysis of variance, Tukey post hoc test and the Pearson correlation coefficient were used to analyse the obtained data. The statistical significance level was set as 0.05.<br> <strong>Results</strong>: Of 456 young people participating in the study, 96.1% (n=438) were female and 3.9% (n=8) were male. Most participants (41.4%) were 20-21 years old. Although there were more undergraduate students (71.7%), most participants were in their first year (43.4%). More than half of the participants (56.8%) were in a romantic relationship. As a result of the study, the Mean&plusmn;SD dependency in romantic relationships of participants was determined as 2.03&plusmn;0.654. The self-commitment Mean&plusmn;SD in romantic relationships was found to be low (1.79&plusmn;0.626), and the mean of obsession was high (2.29&plusmn;0.872). In addition, the findings show that most participants have a secure attachment style. In terms of gender, women had higher levels of anxious-ambivalent attachment. Participants in romantic relationships had higher levels of dependency, self-commitment, deprivation, and obsessive-compulsive attachment.<br> <strong>Conclusion</strong>: Participants in romantic relationships have a secure attachment style, while participants without romantic relationships have an anxious-ambivalent attachment style.</span></span></span></div> Romantic relationships, Addiction, Attachment styles, Young people 345 354 http://jrh.gmu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-2365-5&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Alev Üstündağ alev.ustundag@sbu.edu.tr 100319475328460040105 100319475328460040105 Yes Department of Child Development, Faculty of Gülhane Health Sciences, University of Health Sciences, Ankara, Turkey. Aynur Uzun yazen.aynur.12@gmail.com 100319475328460040106 0009-0005-6832-6482 No Department of Child Development, Faculty of Gülhane Health Sciences, University of Health Sciences, Ankara, Turkey. Ayşe Akpınar aysea64251@gmail.com 100319475328460040107 0009-0008-5907-1213 No Department of Child Development, Faculty of Gülhane Health Sciences, University of Health Sciences, Ankara, Turkey.