Social-Emotional Profiles of PTSD, Complex PTSD, and Borderline Personality Disorder Among Racially and Ethnically Diverse Young Adults: A Latent Class Analysis.

ABSTRACT: The debate around the construct validity of complex posttraumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) has begun to examine whether CPTSD diverges from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) when it co-occurs with the diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (BPD). The present study (a) examined the construct validity of CPTSD through a latent class analysis of a non-treatment-seeking sample of young trauma-exposed adults and (b) characterized each class in terms of trauma characteristics, social emotions (e.g., shame, guilt, blame), and interpersonal functioning. A total of 23 dichotomized survey items were chosen to represent the symptoms of PTSD, CPTSD, and BPD and administered to 197 trauma-exposed participants. Fit statistics compared models with 2-4 latent classes. The four-class model showed t

SUBMITTER: Saraiya TC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9817088 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature