Intimate partner violence and personality disorders: a meta-analytic study

Abstract

We conduct a meta-analytic study to check the association between Personality Disorders and battering and specifically
whether PD would be a risk marker for IPV onset. We selected 15 controlled studies and we calculated the associations between
IPV and Antisocial PD, Borderline PD and Psychopathy. In all three cases the average effect size was small: ṝ=0,15;
ṝ=0,13;