Exploring the association between emotional abuse and childhood borderline personality features: The moderating role of personality traits

Behavior Therapy

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 493-508

  Gratz, Kim L ^a   Latzman, Robert D ^a   Tull, Matthew T ^a   Reynolds, Elizabeth K ^b   Lejuez, C W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANGER; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; BORDERLINE STATE; BOREDOM; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONDUCT DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL INSTABILITY; MOOD DISORDER; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER; PANIC; PARANOIA; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPARATION ANXIETY; SOCIAL PHOBIA;

ADOLESCENT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 79958121266     PISSN: 00057894     EISSN: 18781888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2010.11.003     Document Type: Article

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