TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1993//
TI  - Borderline personality in perpetrators of psychological and physical abuse
JO  - Violence and victims
A1  - Dutton, Donald G.
A1  - Starzomski, A. J.
SP  - 326
EP  - 337
VL  - 8
IS  - 4
N2  - The present study is an extension of research that examined the relationship between borderline personality organization (BPO), anger (assessed with the Multidimensional Anger Inventory [MAI]), and wife abuse in 120 men who had committed wife assault. Seventy-five female partners reported on physical and psychological abuse by the men, using the Conflict Tactics Scale and the Psychological Maltreatment of Women Inventory. The men's BPO self-report scores correlated significantly with their partners' reports of their abusiveness as assessed by these scales. Three self-report subscale scores on the MAI and one on the BPO scale accounted for 50% of the variance in their partners' reports of domination and isolation, and for 35% of the women's reports of emotional abuse.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0886-6708
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -