The Relation Between Dimensions of Normal and Pathological Personality and Childhood Maltreatment in Incarcerated Boys

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The relation between dimensions of normal and pathological personality and childhood maltreatment in incarcerated boys Nederlof, E.; van der Ham, J.M.; Dingemans, P.M.J.A.; Oei, T.I. Published in: Journal of Personality DisordersPublication date: 2010 Link to publication Citation for published version (APA):Nederlof, E., van der Ham, J. M., Dingemans, P. M. J. A., & Oei, T. I. (2010). The relation between dimensions of normal and pathological personality and childhood maltreatment in incarcerated boys. Journal of Personality Disorders, 24(6), 746-762. General rightsCopyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.-Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research -You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain -You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright, please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. The relation between subtypes of maltreatment and dimensions of personality and personality pathology was investigated in a representative sample of 142 incarcerated Dutch male juveniles. Normal personality dimensions were assessed with the Big Five Inventory, the Dimensional Assessment of Personality Pathology-Basic Questionnaire for Adolescents was used to measure pathological personality dimensions, and the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire was used to assess childhood maltreatment. The five maltreatment subtypes were found to be differentially and uniquely related to the normal and pathological personality dimensions in juvenile delinquents. The association between the abusive subtypes and Emotional Dysregulation depended on the co-occurrence of neglect. It was concluded that subtypes of maltreatment are distinctively related to dimensions of personality and personality pathology, possibly due to specific gene-environment interactions. Further research on this interplay is needed to be able to recognize genetic vulnerability. Early identification of children at risk could aid to limit the long-term consequences of maltreatment.

Severity of maltreatment and personality pathology in adolescents of Jammu, India: A latent class approach

“…One popular measurement tool used to assess the dimensional aspects of personality pathology at a trait level is the Dimensional Assessment of Personality Pathology Basic Questionnaire (see section on measures, DAPP-BQ; Livesley & Jackson, 2009) which has been validated in adolescent (Tromp & Koot, 2008, 2015, and in adult samples (Bagge & Trull, 2003;Livesley & Jackson, 2009). This converges with a recent increase in research focusing on the dimensions/traits of personality pathology in relation to abuse/neglect in children and adolescents (Gratz, Latzman, Tull, Reynolds, & Lejuez, 2011;Natsuaki, Cicchetti, & Rogosch, 2009;Nederlof, Van der Ham, Dingemans, & Oei, 2010) and young adults (Mathews, Kaur, & Stein, 2008). For example, a study on sexually victimized females by Wonderlich et al (2001) using the DAPP-BQ found that sexual abuse in childhood was associated with significantly elevated scores of the victimized group on lowerorder dimensions of the DAPP-BQ (e.g., Suspiciousness, Intimacy Problems, and Restricted Expression) when compared with a control group.…”

Child abuse and neglect and intimate partner violence victimization and perpetration: A prospective investigation

“…One might speculate that the absence of the basic needs of food, clothing, shelter or medical attention characterized by neglect not only leads to other negative consequences (Gilbert et al, 2009), but also interferes with a person’s ability to enter into non-abusive intimate partner relationships. Speculating from one recent Dutch study that reported a link between emotional dysregulation and childhood abuse that depended on the co-occurrence of neglect (Nederlof, Van der Ham, Dingemans, & Oei, 2010), it is possible that childhood neglect may lead to greater emotion dysregulation which, in turn, renders a person more vulnerable to being victimized by IPV leading to injury. Drawing on the work of Dutton and colleagues (Dutton, 2003; Godbout, Dutton, Lussier, & Sabourin, 2009), it is also possible that childhood neglect disrupts the child’s attachments to parental figures and this leads to insecure adult attachment styles and, ultimately, marital violence in an attempt to control the partner and prevent threats of abandonment.…”

A Longitudinal Examination of Different Etiological Pathways to Alcohol Use and Misuse

“…Although studies into the association between specific types of maltreatment and personality are scarce, similar results have been previously documented. Nederlof and colleagues () found that emotional abuse is specifically related to neuroticism, whereas physical abuse is specifically associated with low agreeableness and dissocial behavior in a sample of incarcerated boys. Studies on psychological and personality disorders have also suggested similar specific relationships.…”

“…Moreover, maltreatment has been associated with emotional instability and neuroticism (Moran et al., ; Nederlof et al., ; Rogosch and Cicchetti, ), and also with enhancement and coping motives (Goldstein et al., ). These data suggest that maltreatment might be involved in several pathways to alcohol use, and not only deviance proneness.…”