The Hartmann Boundaries

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Zborowski, Hartmann, Newsom, and Banar’s article The Hartmann Boundary (2004) Questionnaire: Two Studies Examining Personality Correlates and Interpersonal Behavior is based off of two different studies. The first study examined if there were any relationships between “thick” and “thin” boundaries as defined by the Hartmann Boundary Questionnaire and dependency, interpersonal behaviors, the effect of particular traits and object relations (p. 49). The second study extended the research of the first study and added the examination of trait anxiety, curiosity, and anger. The second study also added an interview portion of the research to the study. The interviewer was asking questions to further determine the subject’s dependency, interpersonal behavior, trait affect and object relations along with curiosity, anger, and trait anxiety but also, at the end of each interview, the interviewer rated each subject on how open and likeable the subject was and also how comfortable the interviewer felt during the interview (Zborowski et al., 2004 p.49). In addition to the relationship of bound...

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