A Comparative Study of Adult Rapists' Attachment Styles and its Domains with Non Rapists

پژوهش نامه مبانی تعلیم و تربیت

Article 14, Volume 011, Issue 1, September 2010   

Document Type: پژوهشی

DOI: 10.22067/fe.v11i1.4010

Authors

elahe Hafhighatmanesh^* ; Hamidreza Aghamohammdian; bahram ali Ghanbarihashem Abadi; behrooz mahram

Abstract

We examined the attachment styles and its domains in a sample of rapists. 34 rapists were randomly selected among a larger group of rapists who were in captivity in Central Prison of Mashhad City and were compared with 34 non rapist individuals (controls); all participants were matched on age, marital status, occupation status and literacy level. The control participants were selected based on their GSI scores on SCL-90-R )GSI 1 (. Data gathered through Experiences in Close Relationships-Revised (ECR-R) and were analyzed by dependent t-tests and chi-square tests (X2). Results showed that, compared with the controls, rapists scored significantly higher on attachment anxiety. The two groups did not differ on attachment avoidant. Moreover, rapists showed a higher ration on insecure attachment styles than the controls. Therefore, rapists have a high level of attachment anxiety that may lead them toward committing sexual crimes, sexual offensive behaviors, and rape.

Keywords
Sexual offender, Sexual abuse, Rapist, Attachment Style, Attachment domain