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Childhood Physical and Emotional Abuse by a Parent: Transference Effects in Adult Interpersonal Relations

Berenson, Kathy R., Andersen, Susan M.·2006·Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
DOI 10.1177/0146167206291671
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Extending research on transference and the relational self (Andersen & Chen, 2002), female undergraduates with or without a history of physical and emotional abuse by a loved parent participated in an experiment manipulating parental resemblance and threat-relevant interpersonal context in a new person. Transference elicited differences not evident in the control condition between abused and nonabused participants' responses, with greater rejection expectancy, mistrust, dislike, and emotional indifference reported by abused participants. Immediate implicit affect was more positive in transference than in the control condition regardless of abuse history. Yet, abused participants in transference also reported increased dysphoria that was markedly attenuated when interpersonal threat was primed, and no such pattern occurred among nonabused participants. Evidence that interpersonally guarded and affectively complex responses are triggered in transference among previously abused individuals suggests that this social-cognitive process may underlie long-term interpersonal difficulties associated with parental abuse.

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  • A case-control study did not find a significant difference in rejection sensitivity scores between those who had and had not experienced physical violence and/or threatening behaviour from a parent as a child.

    “Furthermore, a case-control study did not find a significant difference in RS scores between those who had and had not experienced physical violence and/or threatening behaviour from a parent as a child (Berenson & Anderson, 2006).”

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Authors
Berenson, K. R., & Andersen, S. M.
Affiliations
New York University (US)
Corresponding author
Berenson, Kathy R.
ORCID
Berenson, Kathy R.
Venue
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2006-11
Volume
32
Issue
11
Pages
1509-1522
ISSN
  • 0146-1672 (ISSN-L)
  • 1552-7433
DOI
10.1177/0146167206291671
OpenAlex
W2039195575
Cited by
72
References
52
Citations by year
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FWCI
3.69
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
  • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
Keywords
child physical abuse, childhood emotional abuse, parental abuse, transference, relational self, interpersonal threat, distrust, emotional indifference, dysphoria, implicit affect, interpersonal problems, female undergraduates
MeSH terms
Adult, Affect, Child, Child Abuse, Facial Expression, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Male, Parent-Child Relations, Parents, Surveys and Questionnaires, Rejection, Psychology, Social Perception, Transference, Psychology, Trust

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