Associations Between Epistemic Trust and the Severity of Personality Disorder

• DOI: 10.1097/nmd.0000000000001825
• Publication Date: 2025-02-20T18:00:08Z
• Authors: Saskia Knapen; Wendy Mensink; Wilma E. Swildens; Adriaan W. Hoogen...; Puck Duits; Joost Hutsebaut; Aartjan T.F. Beekman
• Keywords: Multiple Personality Disorder

Early childhood adversity may dispose an individual to adopt a rigid and pervasive hypervigilant position toward information coming from others, resulting in high levels of epistemic mistrust (EM), which is supposed increase the risk developing psychopathology. A more intrinsic relationship between EM development personality disorders (PDs) assumed. Although theory trust (ET) rather novel, it has quickly become widely accepted field, despite much empirical evidence. This first study investigating level ET associations PDs among patients with PD, anxiety disorders, community sample. Our results demonstrated severe impairments patients, found severity types corroborate theoretically assumed model. Future research larger samples prospective designs needed explore further substantiate theoretical assumptions about ET.