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Psicologia Clínica

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Abstract

MADALENA, Marcela Bianca de Andrade; COSTA, Crístofer Batista da  and  FALCKE, Denise. Intimate partner violence and personality disorders: a systematic review of the literature. Psicol. clin. [online]. 2017, vol.29, n.3, pp. 519-542. ISSN 0103-5665.

Personality disorders are often associated with intimate partner violence, composing types of offenders. The aim of this study was to analyze how personality disorders associated with intimate partner violence were investigated and what the main results during the period between 2009 and 2014. Therefore, a systematic literature review was performed and were consulted the Academic Search Premier, IndexPsi, Medline Complete, Scielo and Web of Science databases. It was identified 161 articles and after the procedures for examining and eligibility, 28 articles composed this review. The results showed that all studies were quantitative and most of them were carried out with perpetrators male of violence. The personality disorder traits predictors or associated with intimate partner violence was Borderline and Antisocial. Few studies investigated the violence committed and suffered in men and woman samples, sample of couples and used sophisticated statistical techniques such as dyadic and structural equation modeling.

Keywords : intimate partner violence; personality disorders; theory systemic.

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