Abstract
The aim of the present study was to seek relationship between childhood
abuse, neglect and personality disorder in drug users. It was hypothesized
that (1) there is likely to be a relationship between childhood neglect and
personality disorder, (2) childhood neglect and abuse is likely to predict
personality disorders in drug users. The data was comprised of N=50
participants (male) taken from different teaching hospitals of Lahore;
Mayo Hospital Lahore, Ganga Ram Hospital Lahore, Punjab Institute of
Mental Health and Fountain House. The data was collected with the help
of Demographic Questionnaire, Childhood Abuse and Neglect
Questionnaire (Sitwat &Yousaf, 2010) and Comprehensive Diagnostic
Instrument for Personality Disorder (CDIP) (Dawood & Khan, 2010).
Pearson Product Moment was employed to find out the correlation
between childhood abuse, neglect and personality disorders. Stepwise
Regression analysis was done to see predictors of personality disorders.
The results of Pearson product moment correlation among study variables
revealed that emotional abuse and neglect was significantly and
positively related with schizoid personality disorder, whereas sexual
abuse and neglect was found significantly and positively related to the
narcissistic personality disorder. Results of regression analysis revealed
that sexual abuse and neglect was the only variable which significantly
predicting narcissistic personality disorder, whereas emotional abuse and
neglect was found significant predictor of schizoid personality disorder.
Faiza Safdar, Hafsa Chandni Rizwan, Afreen Komal. (2014) Childhood Abuse, Neglect and Personality Disorders in Drug Users, Pakistan Journal of Professional Psychology Research and Practice, Volume 5, Volume 5.
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