title: Attachment, parental bonding and borderline personality disorder features in young adults.
abstract: The relations between parental bonding and attachment constructs and borderline personality disorder features were examined in a sample of 393 18-year-old participants. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that parental bonding and attachment scores (especially insecure attachment, anxious or ambivalent attachment, and a perception of a relative lack of caring from one's mother) were uniquely associated with borderline features beyond what could be accounted for by gender, childhood adversity experiences, Axis I disorder, and nonborderline Axis II symptoms. Although relatively modest, these relations suggest that bonding and attachment constructs might be considered in comprehensive etiological models of borderline personality disorder.
authors: Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.
authors: Angela D
authors: AD
authors: Nickell
authors: Carol J
authors: CJ
authors: Waudby
authors: Timothy J
authors: TJ
authors: Trull
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008923:Missouri; D009769:Object Attachment; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D012044:Regression Analysis