The Role of Childhood Abuse and Emotional Vulnerability in Borderline Personality Traits: The Mediating Roles of Emotional Schemas and Emotional Regulation

Subject Areas : روان‌شناسی تحولی

Hamid Yaghubi ¹ ( PhD Shahed University )
Jafar Hasani ² ( PhD Kharazmi University )
Majid Mahmoud Alilo ³ ( ,PhD Tabriz University )
Vahid Sabri ⁴ ( PhD in Clinical Psychology Shahed University )

Received: 2023-01-02 Accepted : 2023-01-02 Published : 2022-06-22

Keywords: Borderline personality, childhood abuse, emotional schema,

Abstract :

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the mediating role of emotional schemas and emotional regulation in the re- lationship between child abuse, emotional vulnerability and borderline personality feature. The present study is a correlational study and structural equation modeling. Participants were 462 people of general population of West Azerbaijan province were selected by cyberspace sampling method. For data gathering, Child Abuse Self Report Scale (Mohammadkhani, Mohammadi, Nazari, Salavati & Razzahghi, 2003), Childhood Emotional Vulnerability (Sauer & Bauer, 2009), Emotional Schemas (Leahy, 2011), and Borderline Personality Feature (Mohammadzadeh, Godarzi, Taghavi,Mollazadeh, 2005) were used. The results showed that confor- mity emotional schemas and emotion regulation were significant positive predictors borderline personality Emotional schema have a mediating role by establishing a positive and significant relationship between child abuse and borderline personality feature. Emotional schemas also mediated between child abuse and emotional vulnerability with emotional dysregulation. Based on the findings of this study, it can be concluded that emotional schemas can increase borderline personality traits.

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