For some submissives, taking on a role of compliance or helplessness offers a form of therapeutic escape: from the stresses of life, from responsibility, or from guilt.
Some psychologists agree that experiences during early can have a profound effect on the character of sexuality later in life.
Foye's Principles of Medicinal Chemistry 5th ed.
But assuming that it did, what I would wonder about is what is his or her biology that would cause a tendency toward a problem, and dynamically, what were the experiences this individual had that led him or her toward one of the ends of the spectrum.