title: Childhood maltreatment and adult personality disorder symptoms: influence of maltreatment type.
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.
authors.affiliation: Mood Disorders Research Program and Laboratory for Clinical Neuroscience, Butler Hospital, Providence, RI 02906, USA. Audrey_Tyrka@brown.edu
authors.forename: Audrey R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Tyrka
authors.forename: Margaret C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Wyche
authors.forename: Megan M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Kelly
authors.forename: Lawrence H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Price
authors.forename: Linda L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Carpenter
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000145:classification / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult