Poor self-control and harsh punishment in childhood prospectively predict borderline personality symptoms in adolescent girls.

ABSTRACT: Developmental theories of borderline personality disorder (BPD) propose that harsh, invalidating parenting of a child with poor self-control and heightened negative emotionality often leads to a coercive cycle of parent-child transactions that increase risk for BPD symptoms such as emotion dysregulation. Although parenting practices and child temperament have previously been linked with BPD, less is known about the prospective influences of caregiver and child characteristics. Using annual longitudinal data from the Pittsburgh Girls Study (n = 2,450), our study examined how reciprocal influences among harsh parenting, self-control, and negative emotionality between ages 5 and 14 predicted the development of BPD symptoms in adolescent girls ages 14 to 17. Consistent with developmental theor

SUBMITTER: Hallquist MN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4573776 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature