The Role of Childhood Trauma in Differences in Affective Instability in Those With Personality Disorders
| Autor: | Karen O’Flynn, Harold W. Koenigsberg, Larry J. Siever, Jeremy M. Silverman, Vladimir Kotlyarevsky, Antonia S. New, Marianne Goodman, Daniel S. Weiss, Vivian Mitropoulou |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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Child abuse
medicine.medical_specialty media_common.quotation_subject medicine.disease Personality disorders Affect measures Psychiatry and Mental health Mood disorders medicine Personality Neurology (clinical) Psychiatry Psychological abuse Psychology Borderline personality disorder Clinical psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | CNS Spectrums. 8:763-770 |
| ISSN: | 2165-6509 1092-8529 |
| Popis: | Background:This study examined the relationship of self-reported histories of childhood trauma to measures of affective instability in a sample of unmedicated outpatients with various personality disorders (n=174).Methods:Childhood trauma was measured by the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire. Affective instability comprises at least two dimensions: affective lability, assessed using the Affective Lability Scale, and affective intensity, assessed using the Affective Intensity Measure.Results:A history of emotional abuse was the only trauma variable that significantly correlated with the affect measures in the total sample (r=.21–.30). More fine-grained analyses revealed that the relationship of emotional abuse and affective instability measures varied as a function of both gender and personality disorder type. In subjects with borderline personality disorder, the correlation for emotional abuse was greatly attenuated for both Affective Lability Scale (r=.10) and Affective Intensity Measure (r=.15) total scores.Conclusion:This suggests that nontrauma-related factors may be more predominant in affective dyscontrol in individuals with borderline personality disorder. |
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