Abstract: This article aims to analyze the effect of wives’ position on the relationship between coping styles and insecurity feeling (IF) in self-sacrificers and normal groups. The method was survey and the groups involved self-sacrificers (including martyr, veteran, and POW) and normal wives in north eastern Iran. The sample size consists of 588 martyr and 590 normal wives which were selected using combined strategies of sampling. The results indicate that the wives with different positions used different positive or negative styles in order to cope with their insecurity feeling, while these styles correlated to the rate of insecurity feeling. Autonomy is used more by martyr, veteran, and POW wives, Problem Solving by martyr and veteran wives, Seeking social support by POW, martyr and veteran wives, Religious acts by veteran and martyr wives, Avoidance by veteran and POW wives, Tolerance by POW and martyr wives, Confrontation by POW wives, and Cognitive flexibility by martyr wives.

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