The Relevance of Child’s Attitude toward Father and Borderline Personality Organization: The Mediator of Object Relations

The present study aims to Explaining model of Borderline Personality Organization on the basis of Primary Object Relation and of attitude to father. The research method was descriptive and correlational. The statistical population of the study consisted of all undergraduate students of University in Tehran in the school year they were in 2017- 18. For this purpose, 250 of these students were selected using multi-stage cluster random sampling. In order to collect data, the Subject Relations Questionnaire (1995), The Kernberg Personality Inventory Questionnaire (IPO), Child’s Attitude toward Father Scale (CAFS) were used to analyze the data. A structural equation modeling was used. The results showed that %22 of the dispersion of the scores of Borderline Personality Organization was explained indirectly through the Primary object relation. In addition, the results of this study, estimating the structural model in which Child’s Attitude toward Father as an in-depended variable and object relations were introduced into the mediator, showed that this model explains %22 of Borderline Personality Organization .thus , the negative function of father as a reference to power in the triple relations of mother - child - father during the pre - oedipus period can form the Borderline Personality Organization in adulthood . The Borderline Personality Organization indirectly could be interpreted by Child’s Attitude toward Father via primary object relations and personality organization.