Rejection and Childhood Abuse During Early-Stage Family Communication under Cross-Cultural Background to Avoidant Personality Disorder

When it comes to personality disorders, does rejection and childhood abuse during early-stage family communication under cross-cultural background contribute to Avoidant Personality Disorders? Although Avoidant Personality Disorder (AVPD) is a common disorder that is related to significant stress, inadequacy, and disability, yet it is poorly studied with the presence of family factors, and only minimal or none has studied the impact of early-stage family communication under cross-cultural backgrounds. In this work, 178 participants growing up under a Chinese parenting background and 178 participants growing under an American parenting background answered a questionnaire about the several negative experiences that happened during three childhood age periods and wrote open-ended narratives. Under both cultures, rejection, and childhood abuse both affect to the development of Avoidant Personality Disorder. For children growing under an American parenting styles are more vulnerable when exposed to frequent rejection and childhood abuse from their guardians, as compared to Chinese children. While experiments have also shown that Asian student samples hold the highest rate on the Authoritarian parenting style out of the 3 parental control styles, whereas the American student sample act completely the opposite; the development of a childs personality is based on schemas formed during early-stage family communications: the more the environment disadvantaged a child of its needs, the stronger the schemas will become on the negative side, with higher the likelihood of having personality disorders. These findings support the view that rejection and childhood abuse effect the growth of Avoidant Personality Disorder, and Children under American-parenting styles are more vulnerable to it as to Chinese children.