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Ethnicity in trauma and psychiatric disorders: findings from the collaborative longitudinal study of personality disorders
Author(s) -
Pérez Benítez Carlos I.,
Yen Shirley,
Shea M. Tracie,
Edelen Maria O.,
Markowitz John C.,
McGlashan Thomas H.,
Ansell Emily B.,
Grilo Carlos M.,
Skodol Andrew E.,
Gunderson John G.,
Morey Leslie C.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/jclp.20686
Subject(s) - ethnic group , personality disorders , psychology , psychiatry , neglect , clinical psychology , borderline personality disorder , longitudinal study , mental health , suicide prevention , personality , injury prevention , verbal abuse , poison control , medicine , medical emergency , social psychology , pathology , sociology , anthropology
The study's aims are to explore ethnic differences in rates of adverse childhood experiences and lifetime traumatic events and in rates of psychiatric disorders for patients exposed to similar traumas. Rates of these events and rates of major depressive disorder, posttraumatic stress, substance use, and borderline personality disorders were compared among 506 non‐Hispanic Whites (N‐HW), 108 Latina(o)s, and 94 African Americans (AA) participating in the Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorder Study. We found that Whites reported higher rates of neglect than African Americans and Latina(o)s, higher rates of verbal/emotional abuse than African Americans, and higher rates of accidents and injuries/feared serious injury than Latina(o)s. African Americans had higher rates of seeing someone injured/killed than Whites. No significant interaction was observed between adverse events and ethnicity for mental disorders. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol: 66:1–16, 2010.