Childhood Emotional Abuse and Dissociation: The Influence of Mentalizing and Borderline Personality Disorder Features

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Keyword: Personality Traits

Abstract: A community sample of 111 adolescents (89 Females) aged 13 to 20 completed measures of childhood emotional abuse (CEA), borderline personality disorder (BPD) features, dissociation, and mentalizing. BPD features fully mediated the relationship between CEA and dissociation while mentalizing did not moderate the mediation effect of BPD features on dissociation.

• Roxanne Demers (Author)
• Emie Morin (Presenting Author)
• Gabriel Martin-Gagnon (Author)
• Marissa Wais (Author)
• Karin Ensink (Author)