the relationship between attachment styles, self-monitoring and cybercrime in social network users

Background: the anonymity in the cyberspace environment, as well as the rapid advent of and improvements to online activities has increased cybercrime. objectives: the aim of this paper was to survey the relationship between attachment styles, self-monitoring and cybercrime in social network users. patients and methods: the collins and read adult attachment scale, and the snyder self-monitoring and cybercrime scales were sent to 500 social network users. of these, 203 users (103 men and 100 women) filled out the questionnaires. results: the results showed that women achieved higher scores in self-monitoring and the anxious attachment style, and men achieved higher scores in cybercrime and the anxious attachment style. there was a negative correlation between self-monitoring and cybercrime, and the anxious attachment style had a positive correlation with cybercrime and a negative correlation with selfmonitoring. the secure attachment stylehada positive correlation with self-monitoringanda negative correlation with cybercrime. the dependent attachment style had a positive correlation with self-monitoring and a negative correlation with cybercrime. all correlations were significant. conclusions: attachment styles have significant relationships with both self-monitoring and cybercrime. self-monitoring and attachment styles are significant predictors of cybercrimes.