The author of this master’s thesis was researching personality disorders with an emphasis on borderline personality disorders as well as identifying causes of such disorders. In the theoretical part and with a help of foreign and domestic literature, the author described borderline personality disorder while also actively looking for causes of its emergence. The author has primarily focused on less functional primary families, early traumas, genetics, gender and culture. In the empirical part, the author presented results of her own research conducted on a sample of 195 participants. The author examined correlation between early trauma and higher count of personality traits of borderline personality disorder as well as correlation between less functional families and higher count of personality traits of borderline personality disorder. The author also explored the hypothesis that males have higher count of personality traits of personality disorders than females. Analysis of results confirmed that there is a statistically significant positive correlation between less functional families and higher count of personality traits of borderline personality disorder as well as statistically significant positive correlation between early trauma and higher count of personality traits of borderline personality disorder. The study was, however, unable to confirm the hypothesis that representatives of female gender have higher count of personality traits of borderline personality disorders than representatives of male gender.
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