The Making Of Darth Vader Parent Child Care And The Dark...

The Making of Darth Vader: Parent-child Care and the Dark Triad Stephanie Bradley Alabama State University Theories of Personality Section I: Summary Critique Studies have shown that children behave in a certain manner that is commonly related to the way they were raised. To be more precise, a child’s behavior can evolve from the way their parents treated them, at an age where they can remember when these events occurred. Theories agree; the manner one is treated as a child influences mating strategies (Bowlby, 1988; Chilsom, Quinlivan, Petersen, Coall, 2005). Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy have repeatedly been identified as aversive personality traits (Kowalski, 2001) characterized by entitlement, superiority, dominance, glib social charm, manipulativeness, and interpersonal antagonism. Stressful, harsh, or unstable child-parent relationships might activate an approach to life, captured by the Dark Triad, orienting individuals towards seeking immediate returns in mating ( Jonason, Valentine, Li, Harbeson, 2011) and social relationships ( Jonason Webster, 2012). In addition, according to (Del Giudice Belsky, 2010), parents have a profound effect on children; potentially generating different patterns of attachment (Barthlomew Horowitz, 1991). The types of attachment includes secure attachment, which is thought to result from a positive and affirming bond with one’s primary caregiver and to result in a tendency towards