Comparative study of the relationship between childhood traumas with personality function and pathological traits in patients with borderline personality disorder and non-patient group

Introduction: A review of the background of people with borderline personality disorder shows that most of these people were raised in shaky family environments. Aim: The aim of this study was to predict the relationship between personality function and pathological traits in patients with borderline personality disorder and normal group through childhood traumas. Method: The present study was a causal-comparative and correlational study. The statistical population consisted of 214 students of the academic year 2018-2019 of Kurdistan University and 25 patients with borderline personality disorder hospitalized from december to february 2018 in Ghods psychiatric hospital, by available sampling method. And Childhood Injury Questionnaires (Bernstein and Fink, 1998), the Large-Scale Personality Function Levels (Murray et al., 2011), the Long Version of the Personality Checklist for the Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychiatric Disorders (American Psychiatric Association, 2013) and the Personality Disorders Questionnaire (First et al., 1997) responded. Data analysis was performed using Pearson correlation test and logistic regression analysis. Results: There was a direct and significant relationship between the scores of borderline personality disorder and personality function at the level of (P<0.000) and childhood trauma at the level of (P<0.000). The findings of the present study using logistic regression showed that personality dysfunction and childhood traumas at the (P<0.000) level are able to distinguish between 23 and 48% of the group with borderline personality disorder from the non-clinical group. Conclusion: According to the results of borderline personality disorder, personality trauma can be predicted through childhood traumatic experiences and dysfunction. Clinicians are advised to consider the role of childhood trauma in dealing with borderline patients.