Comparing of the antisocial and borderline personality disorder, empathy, and mirror neuron function in pepole with secure and insecure attachment styles

Subject Areas : social psychology

Masoumeh  Zarei ¹ (PhD Student in General Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Qom Branch, Qom, Iran)
Nasser  Goodarzi ² (Assistant professor of health Psychology, Department of Psychology, Army University, Tehran, IR Iran)
Nader  Monirpour ³ (Assistant professor of health Psychology, Department of Psychology, Qom branch, Islamic Azad University, Qom, IR Iran)

Received: 2021-05-08 Accepted : 2021-08-31 Published : 2021-11-22

Keywords: Antisocial personality# Borderline personality# Empathy# Mirror Neuron Function# Attachment Styles,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study was to compare antisocial and borderline personality disorder, empathy, and mirror neuron function in chronic addicts and non-addicts with secure and insecure attachment styles. The research method is causal-comparative. The statistical population of this study consisted of all opioid addicts (opium and heroin addicts) who were referred to addiction treatment centers in Tehran in 2019. Sampling method was purposive sampling. The research instruments included the Hazen & Shaver Attachment Style Questionnaire (1987), Davies Empathy Questionnaire (1983), the Millon 3 Clinical Multidisciplinary Questionnaire, and electroencephalography apparatus. Data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of variance. Results of data analysis showed that main effect of attachment styles was significant (p <0.05). Accordingly, the differences between the two groups of secure and insecure attachment styles in antisocial personality, borderline personality, empathy, and mirror neuron function in the cz channel were confirmed. Accordingly, in both groups of addicts and non-addicts, insecure attachment style had a greater effect on antisocial personality, borderline personality, empathy, and mirror neuronal function in the cz channel. . Also, people with a secure attachment style from a psychoanalytic perspective have a better ability to control their transient needs and behavioral impulses. Benefiting from a strong super ego allows the individual to manage and control the emotions and impulses of the id more powerfully. Postponement of immediate and transient needs draws human attention and concentration to the satisfaction of more important and long-term needs that play an effective role in a person's mental health, as well as the amount of neurotic anxiety caused by interpersonal conflicts. It focuses on the behavior and reduction of impulsive behaviors in these people.

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