The relationship between borderline personality traits and dating violence in adults

It was aimed to differentiate between borderline personality and dating violence, who have different experiences, by examining if borderline personality traits of individuals are met with dating violence according to these personality traits. İn this research with the scanning model is used. The study group consists of 405 individuals over the age of 18. In this study, Personal Information Form, Dating Violence Attitude Scale and Borderline Personality Inventory were made to the participants who volunteered to participate in the study. SPSS 21 program was used for data analysis. "Normality Test" was carried out to determine whether the resulting data were normally distributed. It was determined that the data were normally distributed, and the "Parametric Tests", "t-test" and "One Way Anova" test were used to analyze the Dating Violence Attitude Scale and Borderline Personality Inventory scores according to demographic variables. Correlation analysis was used in the relationship between Dating Violence Attitude Scale scores and Borderline Personality Inventory scores. Frequency analysis was performed to determine the socio-demographic characteristics of the individuals forming the sample. In this research, the relationship between borderline personality traits and dating violence in adults was investigated. In line with the analysis, it was found that there was a negative significant relationship between the Borderline Personality Inventory score and physical violence and emotional violence; It was found that there is no significant relationship between Borderline Personality Inventory score and general dating violence, economic violence and sexual violence. In addition, while the scores obtained from the Dating Violence Attitude Scale differed according to gender, psychiatric help-seeking status and age, it was determined that there was no significant difference between the Borderline Personality Inventory Scores according to age, and the status of receiving psychiatric help, exposure to violence in family and romantic relationships.