Citation

Tyrka AR, Wyche MC, Kelly MM, Price LH, Carpenter LL. Psychiatry Res. 2009; 165(3): 281-287.

Affiliation

Mood Disorders Research Program and Laboratory for Clinical Neuroscience, Butler Hospital, Providence, RI 02906, USA. Audrey_Tyrka@brown.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.psychres.2007.10.017

PMID

19162332

PMCID

PMC2671800

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.

Language: en