Personality disorders and intimate partner aggression: A replication and extension in older, married couples.

ABSTRACT: Intimate partner aggression (IPA) is a significant public health burden, and thus efforts to identify individual characteristics that predict perpetration of IPA is an important research question. Personality disorders are a significant correlate of IPA, both cross-sectionally and longitudinally. Much of that work, however, had been conducted in younger samples. IPA in older adults is a relatively understudied area of research generally. Thus, examining the association between personality pathology and IPA in older adults is novel and important. In previous work using the St. Louis Personality and Aging Network sample, we found that borderline personality disorder was a robust correlate of perpetrating partner aggression in older, romantically involved participants. In the current analyses

SUBMITTER: South SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8462481 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature