1. Objectifs

Intentions :
« In a continuing effort to document the incidence and clarify the role played by various kinds of abuse in the development of psychiatric disorders, we present data on a group of women with BPD [Borderline personality disorder], a group of women suffering from restrictive anorexia nervosa and a control group of women (NC [Without clinical history]) who have never had a psychiatric diagnosis nor psychiatric treatment. » (extrait de l’article, numéro de page absent)

2. Méthode

Échantillon/Matériau :
« Individual information was obtained from 35 women with BPD, 34 women with AN [Anorexia nervosa], and 33 women without clinical problems. Mothers and fathers of 21 women with BPD, 23 women with AN, and 25 NC women were interviewed with the same instruments. Therefore, there was a subsample 3 of three-person families within each diagnostic group. » (extrait de l’article, numéro de page absent)

Instruments :
- Revised Retrospective Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines (DIB-R);
- Eating Attitudes Test;
- Disorders Module of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R;
- Borderline Syndrome Index;
- Revised Symptom Checklist-90;
- Family Interview for Protectiveness and Empathy.

Type de traitement des données :
Analyse statistique

3. Résumé

« In a group of intact families, we examined the rates and parameters of verbal, physical, and sexual abuse in [...] women with borderline personality disorder (BPD), [...] anorexia nervosa (AN), and [...] without a clinical history (NC); their experience of multiple abuse and its correlation with their SCL-90-R scores [results from the Revised Symptom Checklist-90 Questionnaire]; and their reports of abuse of their siblings. Corroboration of abuse was obtained from some parents in each group. Women with BPD suffered more intrafamilial verbal and physical abuse. Whereas AN and NC women experienced relatively rare single events of extrafamilial sexual abuse at an older age, those with BPD suffered repeated intrafamilial sexual abuse at a younger age and also suffered more multiple abuse. All multiply abused women had more psychopathology. Siblings were reported abused in the same proportions as subjects; many parents of BPDs corroborated their daughters’ reports of all three forms of abuse. » (extrait de l’article, numéro de page absent)