Childhood Abuse and Psychological Well-being of Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to find the relationship between reported childhood abuse history and symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder. The data was comprised of 60 participants (men=43, women=17) taken from different teaching hospitals of Lahore; Mayo Hospital Lahore, Ganga Ram Hospital Lahore, Punjab Institute of Mental Health and Fountain House. The data was collected with the help of Demographic Questionnaire, Childhood Relation of Abuse Questionnaire (Bifulco & Brown et al., 1994), Wellbeing Affectometer-2 (Kamman & Flett, 1983) and Comprehensive Diagnostic Instrument for Personality Disorder (CDIP) (Dawood & Khan, 2010). Pearson product moment was employed to find the correlation between childhood abuse, Psychological Wellbeing and symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder. Results showed significant positive relationship between symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder and history of Childhood Abuse; with Punishment and Father Antipathy. There was a significant negative relationship among the scales of Childhood Abuse; Sexual Abuse, Father Antipathy and Wellbeing Affectometer-2 Scale-I. The scales of Father Neglect and Father Antipathy had significant negative relation with the Wellbeing Affectometer-2 Scale-II. The symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder had significant positive correlation with Wellbeing Affectometer-2 Scale-II.