On the other hand, compartmentalization is the inability to have self-control over your own mental and physical action (Brown, 2006). This can arise when there is a severe disturbance in the memory retrieval process. A childhood trauma like sexual/physical abuse or an extended period of intense stress could be a factors related to the rise of compartmentalization. All in all, authors concluded that Dissociative disorders like Dissociative Identity Disorder are justified by these two phenomena, producing a psychological disorder. One factor that has been repeatedly become linked with dissociation is childhood abuse. There are also researchers who are interested in seeing how not only traumatic childhood experiences, but also the overall quality of attachment with the caregiver can be key components in accounting the etiology of dissociation. When a child experiences negative emotional connections with the caregiver cases such as detachment and compartmentalization can arise. In order to see how experiencing negative attachment can be a component of DID a longitudinal study was conducted by researchers from the journal Nervous and Mental Disease. Researchers wanted to see how the relationship of DID can affect children as they …show more content…
The research started where participants started being analyzed at a very young age since they were infants to the age of nineteen. When testing attachment researchers analyzed level of warmth, verbal communication, quality of care giving when the infants were six, twelve, and eighteen months old. Also, as the children developed and grew of age a number of physical and or emotional abuse were reported and rated by the Childhood Traumatic Experience Scale. The researcher’s results concluded that mother’s that lack positive affection with their children were important factors to later dissociative symptoms in the victims reported. Reports of trauma were also based on self-reports and interview measures. Verbal abuse was one of the most common type of abuse that strongly correlated with high Dissociative symptoms. This type of abuse cause children to produce negative interpersonal communications for future relationships. Another crucial factor in the development of a personality disorders is a child’s early conduct behavior. When a parent and a child does not have a good relationship via parent and child, issues will start to develop.