Mediating role of experiential avoidance in predicting borderline personality disorder based on childhood trauma

Considering the high prevalence and negative effects of borderline personality disorders, it is important to know as much as possible about this disorder and to identify the predictors and variables of this disorder.

The present study was Mediating role of experiential avoidance in predicting borderline personality disorder based on childhood trauma.

The present study was a correlational description. The statistical population included all male patients diagnosed with borderline personality disorder admitted to psychiatric hospitals in Shiraz in 2022, which were selected using targeted sampling of 60 people. Data collection was done using the childhood trauma questionnaire (2003), the experiential avoidance questionnaire (2011) and the short scale of borderline personality disorder symptoms (2009). To analyze the data, path analysis test, structural equations and Smart PLS software were used.  

The findings showed that there is a significant and positive relationship between childhood trauma and experiential avoidance (R2=0.711; p<0.05). Path analysis findings also showed that childhood trauma plays a significant role in predicting borderline personality disorder (path coefficient 0.546) and also the avoidance of experience plays a mediating role in the relationship between childhood trauma and borderline personality disorder, so that the path coefficient is 304. 0/ has shown a significant decrease (p<0.05).

The results showed that experiential avoidance has a mediating role in predicting borderline personality disorder based on childhood trauma, so it is necessary to pay attention to the component of childhood trauma along with attention to experiential avoidance as a model to reduce the severity of psychological complications.