A Review on Impact of Personality Disorder in Merital Life
Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: BACKGROUND Partner conflicts are the most common precipitating factors of decompensation of psychiatric disorders, including personality disorders. Personal characteristics play a fundamental role in both the prediction of marital satisfaction of the individual as well as the satisfaction of the couple as a whole. METHOD Narrative Review of the articles, books and book chapters within the period 1956 - 2016 using PubMed, Web of Science, and Scopus databases with keywords “personality disorder,” “partnership,” marital problems,” “marital conflicts.” Additional references were found using reviews of relevant articles. RESULTS It is evident that patients with personality disorders can have problems with meeting the criteria that contribute to the marital satisfaction and, on the other hand, easily fulfill the criteria that are related to the causes of the relation-ship breakups. People with personality disorders have substantial problems with starting and continuing a relationship with a partner. The association between the dysfunctional marriage and personality problems of the partners may have the basis in the insufficient understanding of the behavior of one or both partners. People with personality disorder experience numerous misunderstandings, misinterpretations, communicate poorly, and they are more alert to verbal and physical aggression in the interpersonal relations. They do not recognize that the basis of experienced struggles has a source in their intrapersonal processes and their relationship with the world. Persons with certain personality disorders tend to seek and create a pathologically stable partnership. To understand the dynamics of such relationships, examining personality traits first should be essential. Under-standing the maladaptive personality patterns in the context of therelationship should be beneficial for both partners. CONCLUSIONS Underestimation the influence of a personality disorder on a partner relationship, as well as the stigmatization of these individuals by a counselor, therapist or a counterpart, can significantly impair the chance of creating and maintaining the quality of partnership, or even harming a person clinically. “The take-home message here is that even though divorce rates are not as high as one might expect in marriages where one person has PD, being in a relationship with someone with PD can still be particularly stressful and challenging.”
Author: Dr. Nisha Goswami
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7218067641