title: Borderline personality in perpetrators of psychological and physical abuse.
abstract: The present study is an extension of research that examined the relationship between borderline personality organization (BPO), anger (assessed with the Multidimensional Anger Inventory [MAI]), and wife abuse in 120 men who had committed wife assault. Seventy-five female partners reported on physical and psychological abuse by the men, using the Conflict Tactics Scale and the Psychological Maltreatment of Women Inventory. The men's BPO self-report scores correlated significantly with their partners' reports of their abusiveness as assessed by these scales. Three self-report subscale scores on the MAI and one on the BPO scale accounted for 50% of the variance in their partners' reports of domination and isolation, and for 35% of the women's reports of emotional abuse.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
authors.forename: D G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Dutton
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Starzomski
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000786:Anger; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012494:Sampling Studies; D012930:Social Dominance; D012934:Social Isolation; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*