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dc.contributor.author | Kruger, Christa![]() |
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dc.contributor.author | Fletcher, Lizelle![]() |
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dc.date.accessioned | 2017-06-27T07:40:54Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-02 | en |
dc.description.abstract | We investigate the types of childhood maltreatment and abu-ser–abused relational ties that best predict a dissociative disorder (DD). Psychiatric inpatients (n = 116; mean age = 35; F: M = 1.28:1) completed measures of dissociation and trauma. Abuse type and abuser–abused relational ties were recorded in the Traumatic Experiences Questionnaire. Multidisciplinary team clinical diagnosis or administration of the SCID-D-R to high dissociators confirmed DD diagnoses. Logit models described the relationships between abuser–abused relational tie and the diagnostic grouping of patients, DD present (n = 16) or DD absent (n = 100). Fisher’s exact tests measured the relative contribution of specific abuse types. There was a positive relationship between abuse frequency and the pre-sence of DD. DD patients experienced more abuse than patients without DDs. Two combinations of abuse type and relational tie predicted a DD: childhood emotional neglect by biological parents/siblings and later emotional abuse by inti-mate partners. These findings support the early childhood etiology of DDs and subsequent maladaptive cycles of adult abuse. Enquiries about childhood maltreatment should include a history of emotional neglect by biological parents/siblings. Adult emotional abuse by intimate partners should assist in screening for DDs. | en_ZA |
dc.description.department | Psychiatry | en |
dc.description.department | Statistics | en |
dc.description.embargo | 2018-02-23 | |
dc.description.sponsorship | The South African National Research Foundation and the Department of Psychiatry and Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Pretoria. | en |
dc.description.uri | http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/wjtd20 | en |
dc.identifier.citation | Christa Krüger & Lizelle Fletcher (2017) Predicting a dissociative disorder from type of childhood maltreatment and abuser–abused relational tie, Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 18:3, 356-372, DOI: 10.1080/15299732.2017.1295420. | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1529-9740 (online) | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1529-9732 (print) | en |
dc.identifier.other | 10.1080/15299732.2017.1295420 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/61100 | |
dc.language.iso | English | en |
dc.publisher | Routledge | en |
dc.rights | © 2017 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an electronic version of an article published in Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 356-372, 2017. doi : 10.1080/15299732.2017.1295420. Journal of Trauma and Dissociation is available online at : http://www.tandfonline.comloi/wjtd20. | en |
dc.subject | Abuser-abused relational ties | en |
dc.subject | Biological parents | en |
dc.subject | Siblings | en |
dc.subject | Childhood maltreatment | en |
dc.subject | Dissociative disorder (DD) | en |
dc.subject | Emotional abuse | en |
dc.subject | Emotional neglect | en |
dc.subject | Intimate partners | en |
dc.title | Predicting a dissociative disorder from type of childhood maltreatment and abuser-abused relational tie | en |
dc.type | Postprint Article | en |