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Psychiatria Danubina, Vol. 31 No. 1, 2019.

Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.24869/psyd.2019.32

THE IMPACT OF ATTACHMENT PARAMETERS IN CHILDHOOD ON THE PERSONALITY OF ADULTS WITH MENTAL DISORDERS

Stefan Gebhardt ; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany; Department of General Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics II, Psychiatric Center Nordbaden, Wiesloch, Germany
Ilka Dammann ; Department of General Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics II, Psychiatric Center Nordbaden, Wiesloch, Germany
Klaus Loescher ; Department of General Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics II, Psychiatric Center Nordbaden, Wiesloch, Germany
Richard von Georgi ; SRH University of Popular Arts, Berlin, Germany
Helmut Vedder ; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany; Department of General Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics II, Psychiatric Center Nordbaden, Wiesloch, Germany

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Abstract

Background: Attachment parameters have an effect on later relationship patterns and the development of parameters of selfconcept and personality. In the current study the role of attachment parameters on personality dimensions was investigated, especially with respect to personality disorders.
Subjects and methods: 134 psychiatric inpatients were examined on attachment and personality parameters using the schedule FEB as a questionnaire on the parental attachment and the SKI as a self-concept inventory.
Results: Regression and correlation analyses suggest positive influences of parental care and negative influences of parental overprotection on the development of ego-strength in adulthood. Patients with personality disorders reported to have experienced less maternal care during their childhood and showed a trend towards a reduced ego-strength in adulthood compared to patients with others mental disorders.
Conclusions: Relationships of attachment parameters in childhood with personality dimension are explorable. This approach seems meaningful for a better understanding of the development of personality disorders. Clinicians should be familiar with attachment patterns when treating people with mental disorders in order to adequately include appropriate personality dimensions in the therapy.

Keywords

attachment; childhood; personality dimensions; personality disorders; neuroticism

Hrčak ID:

222380

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/222380

Publication date:

4.4.2019.

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