Investigating the Relationship between Symptoms of Histrionic Personality Disorder and Experiences of Child Abuse among Students of Tabriz Islamic Azad University

Shirin Mohammadi Derakhshi

doi:10.7596/taksad.v6i4.1123

Abstract

The present study attempts to investigate the relationship between symptoms of histrionic personality disorder and experiences of child abuse among students of Tabriz Islamic Azad University in 2013-2014. The general aim of this study is to predict histrionic personality disorder in adulthood based on child abuse experiences during childhood. The population of this study include 19599 people among whom 377 were selected through simple random sampling. The instrument of this study includes Millon-3 CASRS questionnaire and child abuse questionnaire. The data was analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression. The obtained results revealed that there is significant relationship between histrionic personality disorder (independent variable) and dimensions of child abuse (dependent variable) that includes emotional, neglect, physical, and sexual child abuse. Considering different dimensions of child abuse, neglect of child and sexual child abuse have the most and the least contribution in predicting symptoms of histrionic personality disorder in adulthood. In addition, the results showed that all four dimensions of child abuse can predict symptoms of histrionic personality disorder in adulthood, but ignorance or neglecting child has the most effect and sexual dimension has the least effect in the prediction.

Highlights

Is the most basic institution for socializing children, especially in critical early years of life
Child abuse is the biggest failure for the child in his environment
The findings showed that men who were victims of child abuse and neglect are depressed and have antisocial personality disorders in comparison with control group; they do not have alcohol problems

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Introduction

Is the most basic institution for socializing children, especially in critical early years of life. And parents have the most important social relationships with the children They can establish discipline and take care of children in different ways. The assertive behaviors that are associated with expressing verbal emotions are necessary for child discipline. Those parents who violate children's needs and misuse the child dependence in different physical, sexual, and emotional manners, have abnormal and annoying behaviors; failure to respond to the needs of children is the cornerstone of a child's personality problems. Abusive families fail to prepare most of the expected emotional and physical needs of the child and they do not provide proper conditions for self-expression and compatibility with the environment for the child. There is not any definite and clear border between normal and abnormal behavior, but awareness of right and wrong behavior can have a significant impact on the prevention of mistreatment (Mash, 1999)

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