David P. Bernstein

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used data from a community-based longitudinal study to investigate whether childhood abuse and neglect increases risk for personality disorders (PDs) during early adulthood and found that persons with documented childhood abuse or neglect were more than 4 times as likely as those who were not abused or neglected to be diagnosed with PDs during early maturity after age, parental education, and parental psychiatric disorders were controlled statistically.

TL;DR: It is suggested that a substantial minority of adolescents who are not in treatment qualify for DSM-III-R personality disorder diagnoses and that these diagnoses are associated with increased risk of psychological distress and functional impairment.

TL;DR: Fibromyalgia seems to be associated with increased risk of victimization, particularly adult physical abuse.

TL;DR: The results support the view that personality disorders can be traced to childhood emotional and behavioral disturbances and suggest that these problems have both general and specific relationships to adolescent personality functioning.

TL;DR: The view that child maltreatment contributes to the high prevalence of co-morbid personality disorders in addicted populations is supported, as well as several significant paths between types of maltreatment and personality disorder clusters (and subclusters).