The Influence of Social Ostracism and Traumatic Experiences in Childhood on Personality Disorder

Abstract

Human beings are social animals and inevitably have to have relationships and interactions with others to instinctively survive and thrive. In the process of social interaction, it is inevitable to encounter malicious or non-malicious injuries. Based on whether the injuries are malicious or not, they are classified as social ostracism and traumatic experiences, which are further subdivided into verbal and physical violence, the death of a friend or relative, and the deaths of strangers. The correlation between psychological injuries inflicted on the individual by such injurious events that occur during childhood and personality development as well as personality disorders is analyzed and presented through the study of past research in related fields. The analysis finds that, since some individuals in childhood do not have a good ability to cope with such events, even injurious events with different causes and different kinds of injuries could easily cause psychological injuries to individuals, these psychological injuries can further impede the development of the individual's personality, leading to abnormal tendencies in the individual's personality, or even to personality disorders. This paper summarizes the main points of previous empirical studies and provides evidence for further understanding of the relationships between variables.