Identifying the Symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder, And Its Relationship to the Absence of the Father in a Sample of Female High School Students in Al Jamaa District

Abstract

Introduction: The study aimed to identify the symptoms of borderline personality disorder, and its relationship to the absence of the father among a sample of secondary school students in Al Jamaa district. The study consisted of (432) female students from the secondary school students in the university district.

Objectives: to achieve the objectives of this study, the borderline personality disorder symptoms scale, the father's absence questionnaire, and the father's absence impact scale were developed and applied after ensuring the validity and reliability of the scales.

Methods: This study adopted the descriptive correlational approach as the most appropriate method for its objectives. This approach describes the symptoms of borderline personality disorder, and its relationship to the absence of the father among the study sample.

Results and conclusion: The results showed that the level of impact of the absence of the father and the symptoms of borderline personality disorder came at an modorat  level, and that the relationship between them is a direct correlation relationship. And the absence of statistically significant differences in the symptoms of borderline personality disorder due to the two variables (birth order, the period of absence of the father). Differences between the rest of the birth order and the variable of the reason for the absence of the father and in favor of imprisonment for the father compared to divorce, the death of the father in favor of separation and the imprisonment of the father and the father’s abandonment of the house compared to the father’s travel, and the absence of statistically significant differences for the variable of the duration of the father’s absence.

Keywords: Borderline personality disorder, father absence, secondary school students.