TY - JOUR T1 - Childhood Emotional Abuse and Borderline Personality Disorder Features: The Mediating Roles of Attachment Style and Emotion Regulation TT - تجربه آزار هیجانی کودکی و ویژگیهای اختلال شخصیت مرزی در بزرگسالی: نقش واسطه ای سبکهای دلبستگی و تنظیم هیجانی JF - ijpcp JO - ijpcp VL - 24 IS - 2 UR - http://ijpcp.iums.ac.ir/article-1-2814-en.html Y1 - 2018 SP - 148 EP - 163 KW - Attachment styles KW - Borderline personality disorder KW - Emotion regulation KW - Emotional abuse KW - Structural equation modeling N2 - Objectives This study aimed to evaluate the mediating role of attachment styles and emotional regulation in the relationship of childhood emotional abuse and borderline personality disorder features. Methods In a descriptive-correlational study, a sample of 312 students of Shahid Beheshti University was selected using cluster sampling method. Participants responded to the Child Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ), Borderline Personality Inventory (BPI), Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), and Revised Adult Attachment Scale (RAAS). Data were analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) of Path Analysis type. Results Evaluation of the hypothesized model showed that this model has suitable fitness indices. Results showed that anxious attachment style and difficulties in emotion regulation can predict borderline personality disorder feature in full mediation. Conclusion The result, supporting theoretical model for borderline personality disorder, proposes a suitable framework for etiology of the disorder. M3 10.32598/ijpcp.24.2.148 ER -