| Abstract:
This study attempts to identify the relationship between ego-identity status and attachment styles with psychological well-beings of the young students at Islamic Azad University, Roudehen Branch and the impact of neighborhood on their ego-identity status and psychological well-beings. The participants were 120 students (Male=43 and Female=77) while 96 were aboriginal and 24 were not. They were between 22 to 26 years old. Benion-Adams’ measure of identity status, Hazen-Shaver’s attachment style questionnaire, and Ryff’s psychological well-being questionnaire were used to measure identity status, attachment style, and psychological well-being respectively. In the inferential side of data analysis ANOVA and linear regression were applied. The findings indicate that four factors of ego-identity status, attachment styles, gender, and neighborhood all together explain 41% of the variation for psychological well-being of the students. Neighborhood and identity diffusion show a significant predictive value for totao score of the psychological well-being of the participants.
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