Childhood Maltreatment and Adult Personality Disorder Symptoms: Influence of Maltreatment Type

Overview

Journal Psychiatry Res

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 2009 Jan 24

PMID 19162332

Citations 32

Authors

Audrey R Tyrka

Margaret C Wyche

Megan M Kelly

Lawrence H Price

Linda L Carpenter

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Abstract

The present study examines the effects of different types of childhood maltreatment on personality disorder symptoms in a sample of adults with no Axis I psychopathology. Participants reporting a history of moderate to severe maltreatment on the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (n = 70) were grouped by type of abuse and compared with a non-abused group (n = 35) with regard to the number of personality disorder symptoms endorsed. Physical/sexual abuse and emotional abuse/neglect each were associated with elevated symptoms of all three personality disorder clusters. Elevated symptoms of several specific personality disorders were also seen, including paranoid, borderline, avoidant, dependent, obsessive-compulsive, and depressive personality disorder. There were no significant differences between the maltreatment groups. These findings indicate that emotional abuse/neglect and physical/sexual abuse are risk factors for a broad array of personality outcomes in a non-clinical sample.

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