Childhood Maltreatment, Borderline Personality Features, and Coping as Predictors of Intimate Partner Violence.

ABSTRACT: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious mental and physical health concern worldwide. Although previous research suggests that childhood maltreatment increases the risk for IPV, the underlying psychological mechanisms of this relationship are not yet entirely understood. Borderline personality (BP) features may play an important role in the cycle of violence, being associated with interpersonal violence in both childhood and adult relationships. The present study investigated whether BP features mediate the relationship between childhood maltreatment and IPV, differentiating between perpetration and victimization, and taking maladaptive stress coping and gender into account. Self-reports on IPV, childhood trauma, BP features, and maladaptive stress coping were collected in a mixed (no

SUBMITTER: Krause-Utz A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8202213 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature