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The purpose of the present study, �Understanding Cultural Differences in Emotional Intelligence and Attachment Style among Young Adults� is to find out whether there is a significant relationship between emotional intelligence and attachment; whether there is a significant cultural and gender differences in emotional intelligence and attachment among young adults and whether there is a significant difference between the two variables based on culture. The sample for the study consisted of 120 young adults within the age group of 18-25 years. The samples were collected from different states of India through random sampling method. The tools used for the study are The Assessing Emotions Scale, developed by Nicola S. Schutte, John M. Malouff and Navjot Bhullar in 2008 and Attachment Style Questionnaire (ASQ) developed by Feeney, Noller, & Hanrahan in 1994. Karl Pearson�s Correlation Coefficient, Student�s t-test and Descriptive Statistics were used to analyse the collected data. The results indicate that there exists a positive correlation between emotional intelligence and attachment among young adults; there is no significant gender difference between emotional intelligence and attachment; there is no significant cultural difference between emotional intelligence and attachment and there is no significant difference between emotional intelligence and attachment based on the locality.