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Relationships of Multi-Type Childhood Abuse and Parental Bonding to Borderline Personality Traits in College Women

Cuellar, Raven Elizabeth
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1375271697

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2013, Doctor of Philosophy, Miami University, Psychology.
The purpose of the current study was to investigate how various types of victimization and parental warmth and bonding experiences cluster together in young women's life histories in order to determine whether specific profiles of victimization relate to the development of borderline personality disorder (BPD) features. Seven hundred sixty-nine college women completed anonymous questionnaires related to their experiences with childhood maltreatment, adult sexual victimization, parental bonding and attachment, and features of BPD as well as related symptoms of general dysphoria and posttraumatic stress. A cluster analysis yielded a six-cluster solution which included a non-victimized control group, a group characterized by low paternal warmth/ bonding with moderate levels of childhood emotional abuse and little adult symptom distress, a group with no reported child maltreatment but adult sexual victimization, and three multi-type child maltreatment groups which generally evidenced the highest levels of BPD features and associated symptom distress (including a group characterized by physical and emotional abuse in addition to low parental warmth/ bonding, a group characterized by sexual re-victimization, and a group characterized by severe experiences with family violence). The current findings suggest that the co-occurrence of different types of maltreatment and poor parental bonding in childhood and adulthood may predict impairment in certain BPD feature domains and associated symptom domains of psychological distress.
Terri Messman-Moore, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Margaret O'Dougherty Wright, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Aaron Luebbe , Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Sally Lloyd, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
110 p.
Psychology; Psychotherapy
childhood abuse; parental bonding; parental warmth; borderline personality disorder; multi-type child maltreatment; child sexual abuse; child physical abuse; child emotional abuse; witnessing family violence; sexual revictimization; cluster analysis

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  • Cuellar, R. E. (2013). Relationships of Multi-Type Childhood Abuse and Parental Bonding to Borderline Personality Traits in College Women [Doctoral dissertation, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1375271697

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Cuellar, Raven . Relationships of Multi-Type Childhood Abuse and Parental Bonding to Borderline Personality Traits in College Women. 2013. Miami University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1375271697.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Cuellar, Raven . "Relationships of Multi-Type Childhood Abuse and Parental Bonding to Borderline Personality Traits in College Women." Doctoral dissertation, Miami University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1375271697

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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