Publication type: Article in scientific journal
Type of review: Peer review (publication)
Title: Association between childhood maltreatment and normal adult personality traits : exploration of an understudied field
Authors: Hengartner, Michael Pascal
Cohen, Lisa J.
Rodgers, Stephanie
Müller, Mario
Rössler, Wulf
Ajdacic-Gross, Vladeta
DOI: 10.1521/pedi_2014_28_143
Published in: Journal of Personality Disorders
Volume(Issue): 29
Issue: 1
Issue Date: 2015
Publisher / Ed. Institution: Guilford
ISSN: 0885-579X
1943-2763
Language: English
Subjects: Adult; Adult Survivors of Child Abuse; Anxiety Disorders; Child; Child Abuse; Cross-Sectional Studies; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Neuropsychological Tests; Neuroticism; Personality Disorders; Retrospective Studies; Surveys and Questionnaires; Switzerland; Personality
Subject (DDC): 155: Differential and developmental psychology
Abstract: We assessed normal personality traits and childhood trauma in approximately 1170 subjects from a general population-based community sample. In bivariate analyses emotional abuse was most pervasively related to personality, showing significant detrimental associations with neuroticism, extraversion, openness, conscientiousness, and agreeableness. Neuroticism was significantly related to emotional abuse and neglect, physical abuse and neglect, and sexual abuse. Emotional abuse was related to neuroticism in men more profoundly than in women (β = 0.095). Adjusting for the covariance between childhood maltreatment variables, neuroticism was mainly related to emotional abuse (β = 0.193), extraversion to emotional neglect (β = -0.259), openness to emotional abuse (β = 0.175), conscientiousness to emotional abuse (β = -0.110), and agreeableness to emotional neglect (β = -0.153). The proportion of variance explained was highest in neuroticism (5.6%) and lowest in openness (1.9%) and conscientiousness (1.8%). These findings help to understand the complex association between childhood maltreatment and both normal and pathological personality.
URI: https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/15122
Fulltext version: Published version
License (according to publishing contract): Licence according to publishing contract
Departement: Applied Psychology
Organisational Unit: Psychological Institute (PI)
Appears in collections:Publikationen Angewandte Psychologie

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Hengartner, M. P., Cohen, L. J., Rodgers, S., Müller, M., Rössler, W., & Ajdacic-Gross, V. (2015). Association between childhood maltreatment and normal adult personality traits : exploration of an understudied field. Journal of Personality Disorders, 29(1). https://doi.org/10.1521/pedi_2014_28_143
Hengartner, M.P. et al. (2015) ‘Association between childhood maltreatment and normal adult personality traits : exploration of an understudied field’, Journal of Personality Disorders, 29(1). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1521/pedi_2014_28_143.
M. P. Hengartner, L. J. Cohen, S. Rodgers, M. Müller, W. Rössler, and V. Ajdacic-Gross, “Association between childhood maltreatment and normal adult personality traits : exploration of an understudied field,” Journal of Personality Disorders, vol. 29, no. 1, 2015, doi: 10.1521/pedi_2014_28_143.
HENGARTNER, Michael Pascal, Lisa J. COHEN, Stephanie RODGERS, Mario MÜLLER, Wulf RÖSSLER und Vladeta AJDACIC-GROSS, 2015. Association between childhood maltreatment and normal adult personality traits : exploration of an understudied field. Journal of Personality Disorders. 2015. Bd. 29, Nr. 1. DOI 10.1521/pedi_2014_28_143
Hengartner, Michael Pascal, Lisa J. Cohen, Stephanie Rodgers, Mario Müller, Wulf Rössler, and Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross. 2015. “Association between Childhood Maltreatment and Normal Adult Personality Traits : Exploration of an Understudied Field.” Journal of Personality Disorders 29 (1). https://doi.org/10.1521/pedi_2014_28_143.
Hengartner, Michael Pascal, et al. “Association between Childhood Maltreatment and Normal Adult Personality Traits : Exploration of an Understudied Field.” Journal of Personality Disorders, vol. 29, no. 1, 2015, https://doi.org/10.1521/pedi_2014_28_143.


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