title: Childhood Maltreatment as Predictor of Pathological Personality Traits Using PSY-5 in an Adult Psychiatric Sample.
abstract: Extant literature indicates that childhood maltreatment is significantly associated with personality disorders. With the recent call for a more dimensional approach to understanding personality and pathological personality traits, the aim of the present study was to examine whether the experience of childhood maltreatment is associated with pathological personality traits as measured by the Personality Psychopathology Five (PSY-5). We analyzed data from 557 adult psychiatric patients with diverse psychiatric diagnoses, including mood disorders, schizophrenia spectrum disorders, and anxiety disorders. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses were conducted to determine the degree to which childhood maltreatment explained the five trait dimensions after controlling for demographic variables, presence of psychotic symptoms, and degree of depressive symptoms. Childhood maltreatment significantly predicted all of the five trait dimensions of the PSY-5. This suggests that childhood maltreatment may negatively affect the development of an adaptive adjustment system, thereby potentially contributing to the emergence of pathological personality traits.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Sanggye Paik Hospital, Inje University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Ji Young
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Yonsei University, Seoul.
authors.forename: Soo Hyun
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Park
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D054523:Adult Survivors of Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology*; D000368:Aged; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology*; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D007439:Introversion, Psychological; D008950:MMPI; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D000075384:Neuroticism; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000523:psychology; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011599:Psychopathology; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D012559:Schizophrenia; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires