“…Importantly, people with disordered personalities tend to have insecure attachment styles (Brennan & Shaver, 1998;Crawford et al, 2007;Meyer et al, 2001;Nakash et al, 2021;Smith et al, 2020) specifically avoidant attachment style is correlated with psychopathic traits (Gacono & Meloy, 1991;Gacono et al, 1992;Gambin et al, 2018;Meyer et al, 2001;Schimmenti et al, 2014), fearful is associated with psychopathic traits (Schimmenti et al, 2014), and anxious is associated with borderline traits (Carol & Davies, 1995;Levy, 2005;Nakash et al, 2021;Patrick, et al, 1994;Smith et al, 2020). It would seem from previous research that the relationship between childhood abuse and neglect and disordered personality traits may be indirect through insecure attachment (see Figure 1; Cohen et al, 2017;Roters, 2019;Roters & Book, 2023a).…”