Mutualistic processes in the development of psychopathology: The special case of borderline personality disorder.

ABSTRACT: Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a serious mental illness characterized by instability in affective, cognitive, and interpersonal domains. BPD co-occurs with several mental disorders and has robust, positive associations with the general factors of psychopathology (p-factor) and personality disorders (g-PD). Consequently, some researchers have purported BPD to be a marker of p, such that the core features of BPD reflect a generalized liability to psychopathology. This assertion has largely stemmed from cross-sectional evidence and no research to date has explicated the developmental relationships between BPD and p. The present study aimed to investigate the development of BPD traits and the p-factor by examining predictions of two opposing frameworks: dynamic mutualism theory and t

SUBMITTER: Choate AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9978933 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature