Developmental trajectories of anger and sadness dysregulation in childhood differentially predict later borderline symptoms.

ABSTRACT: Difficulties with emotion regulation are integral to borderline personality disorder (BPD) and its hypothesized developmental pathway. Here, we prospectively assess trajectories of emotion processing across childhood, how BPD symptoms impact these trajectories, and whether developmental changes are transdiagnostic or specific to BPD, as major depressive (MDD) and conduct disorders (CD) are also characterized by emotion regulation difficulties. This study included 187 children enriched for those with early symptoms of depression and disruptive behaviors from a longitudinal study. We created multilevel models of multiple components of emotional processing from mean ages 9.05 to 18.55 years, and assessed the effect of late adolescent BPD, MDD, and CD symptoms on these trajectories. Linear tra

SUBMITTER: Vogel AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10733555 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature