https://ojs.csupueblo.edu/ <p>Colorado State University Pueblo's open access, peer-reviewed journal, of student research.</p> en-US <p>Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" target="_new">Creative Commons Attribution License</a> that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.</p> victor.baeza@csupueblo.edu (Victor Baeza) victor.baeza@csupueblo.edu (Victor Baeza) Fri, 24 Feb 2023 15:56:05 -0500 OJS 3.3.0.13 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 https://ojs.csupueblo.edu/article/view/21770 <p>Previous research suggests there is a relationship between individuals’ insecure attachment and level of psychopathy.&nbsp; However, there is little evidence indicating whether anxious or avoidant attachment is more predictive of psychopathy generally, or the two factors of psychopathy (meanness and impulsivity) specifically. A convenience sample of 137 participants was gathered to test four hypotheses. We first hypothesized that avoidant attachment in adulthood (i.e., attachments to all domains) would predict meanness, the primary factor of psychopathy; secondly, we hypothesized avoidant attachment would also predict impulsivity. Similarly, we hypothesized that anxious attachment in adulthood would predict meanness in psychopathy as well as impulsivity in psychopathy. We used a simple linear regression to test all four hypotheses. All but one hypothesis was supported. Anxious attachment served as a better predictor for both dimensions of psychopathy. Limitations and implications are discussed.</p> Wendy Alfonso, Karen Yescavage, Sarah Wylie Copyright (c) 2022 Wendy Alfonso, Karen Yescavage, Sarah Wylie https://ojs.csupueblo.edu/article/view/21770 Fri, 24 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0500