Attachment, Antisocial, And Antisocial Behavior - 1716 Words

Attachment and Antisocial Behavior in Adolescents Secure early infant attachments are imperative to a person’s life because it assists in the development of empathy and emotional self-regulation. A healthy development of empathy and emotional self-regulation promotes prosocial behavior. Prosocial behavior is the deliberate action of helping and/or benefiting another person, group, or society in general without any thought of being rewarded. Securing an early infant attachment can develop an automatic response of prosocial behavior which can be applied throughout an individual’s life as he or she responds to immediate situations that may occur throughout a lifetime. Anti-social behavior is developed when a person lacks the ability to help someone because he or she fails to identify with the feelings or difficulties of someone else (Steele, Bate, Nikitiades, Buhl-Nielsen, 2015). Adolescents that display anti-social behavior are more likely to develop poor peer competence, have lower academic performance, become inv olved in adulthood criminality and are at a higher risk of developing adult mental health problems. Anti-social behavior in adolescents is expressed by the inability to respect the rights of others which leads to the violation of societal social norms. 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