APS
APS Virtual Poster Showcase · 2020
Psychological Reactance As a Motivation in Psychopathy in Incarcerated Males
- Taylor Carpenter
University of Louisiana at Monroe - Carlie Sivils
University of Louisiana at Monroe - Savannah Quinn
University of Louisiana at Monroe - Chad Lewing
University of Louisiana at Monroe
Abstract
The study’s purpose is to determine if the relationship between the psychopathy scores and the reactance scores are consistent in an incarcerated sample. Persons with elevated levels of psychopathy are motivated to maintain freedoms perceived as threatened. Data appears to confirm a correlation between psychological-reactance and psychopathy in male inmates.
Psychopathology
