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Parental rearing and psychopathology in mothers of adolescents with and without borderline personality symptoms

BACKGROUND: A combination of multiple factors, including a strong genetic predisposition and environmental factors, are considered to contribute to the developmental pathways to borderline personality disorder (BPD). However, these factors have mostly been investigated retrospectively, and hardly in...

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Autores principales: Schuppert, H Marieke, Albers, Casper J, Minderaa, Ruud B, Emmelkamp, Paul MG, Nauta, Maaike H
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3488530/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22925148
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1753-2000-6-29
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author Schuppert, H Marieke
Albers, Casper J
Minderaa, Ruud B
Emmelkamp, Paul MG
Nauta, Maaike H
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Albers, Casper J
Minderaa, Ruud B
Emmelkamp, Paul MG
Nauta, Maaike H
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description BACKGROUND: A combination of multiple factors, including a strong genetic predisposition and environmental factors, are considered to contribute to the developmental pathways to borderline personality disorder (BPD). However, these factors have mostly been investigated retrospectively, and hardly in adolescents. The current study focuses on maternal factors in BPD features in adolescence. METHODS: Actual parenting was investigated in a group of referred adolescents with BPD features (N = 101) and a healthy control group (N = 44). Self-reports of perceived concurrent parenting were completed by the adolescents. Questionnaires on parental psychopathology (both Axis I and Axis II disorders) were completed by their mothers. RESULTS: Adolescents reported significantly less emotional warmth, more rejection and more overprotection from their mothers in the BPD-group than in the control group. Mothers in the BPD group reported significantly more parenting stress compared to mothers in the control group. Also, these mothers showed significantly more general psychopathology and clusters C personality traits than mothers in the control group. Contrary to expectations, mothers of adolescents with BPD features reported the same level of cluster B personality traits, compared to mothers in the control group. Hierarchical logistic regression revealed that parental rearing styles (less emotional warmth, and more overprotection) and general psychopathology of the mother were the strongest factors differentiating between controls and adolescents with BPD symptoms. CONCLUSIONS: Adolescents with BPD features experience less emotional warmth and more overprotection from their mothers, while the mothers themselves report more symptoms of anxiety and depression. Addition of family interventions to treatment programs for adolescents might increase the effectiveness of such early interventions, and prevent the adverse outcome that is often seen in adult BPD patients.
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spelling pubmed-34885302012-11-05 Parental rearing and psychopathology in mothers of adolescents with and without borderline personality symptoms Schuppert, H Marieke Albers, Casper J Minderaa, Ruud B Emmelkamp, Paul MG Nauta, Maaike H Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health Research BACKGROUND: A combination of multiple factors, including a strong genetic predisposition and environmental factors, are considered to contribute to the developmental pathways to borderline personality disorder (BPD). However, these factors have mostly been investigated retrospectively, and hardly in adolescents. The current study focuses on maternal factors in BPD features in adolescence. METHODS: Actual parenting was investigated in a group of referred adolescents with BPD features (N = 101) and a healthy control group (N = 44). Self-reports of perceived concurrent parenting were completed by the adolescents. Questionnaires on parental psychopathology (both Axis I and Axis II disorders) were completed by their mothers. RESULTS: Adolescents reported significantly less emotional warmth, more rejection and more overprotection from their mothers in the BPD-group than in the control group. Mothers in the BPD group reported significantly more parenting stress compared to mothers in the control group. Also, these mothers showed significantly more general psychopathology and clusters C personality traits than mothers in the control group. Contrary to expectations, mothers of adolescents with BPD features reported the same level of cluster B personality traits, compared to mothers in the control group. Hierarchical logistic regression revealed that parental rearing styles (less emotional warmth, and more overprotection) and general psychopathology of the mother were the strongest factors differentiating between controls and adolescents with BPD symptoms. CONCLUSIONS: Adolescents with BPD features experience less emotional warmth and more overprotection from their mothers, while the mothers themselves report more symptoms of anxiety and depression. Addition of family interventions to treatment programs for adolescents might increase the effectiveness of such early interventions, and prevent the adverse outcome that is often seen in adult BPD patients. BioMed Central 2012-08-27 /pmc/articles/PMC3488530/ /pubmed/22925148 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1753-2000-6-29 Text en Copyright ©2012 Schuppert et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Minderaa, Ruud B
Emmelkamp, Paul MG
Nauta, Maaike H
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title_short Parental rearing and psychopathology in mothers of adolescents with and without borderline personality symptoms
title_sort parental rearing and psychopathology in mothers of adolescents with and without borderline personality symptoms
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3488530/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22925148
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1753-2000-6-29
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