title: Associations linking parenting styles and offspring personality disorder are moderated by parental personality disorder, evidence from China.
abstract: The aim of the study is to examine the association linking parenting and personality disorder controlling for parental personality disorder, and whether this association is moderated by parental PD. Data were from community-dwelling high school students aged 18 and above and their parents living in Beijing, China. A total of 181 cases and 2,605 controls were included in this study. Personality disorder in students was assessed via a two-stage approach, Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire as a screening tool and International Personality Disorder Examination as the diagnostic tool. Information about parenting was collected from students using Egna Minnen av. Betraffande Uppfostran. Negative parenting styles, e.g. rejective or over-protective parenting, were found to be associated with the occurrence of personality disorder. Conflictive parenting styles were also found to be associated with personality disorder. Generally stronger associations were found for students with parental personality disorder as compared to students without parental personality disorder. Findings from this study support the role of parenting in the occurrence of PD, especially for children with family history of personality disorder.
authors.affiliation: Department of Social Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, Institute of Mental Health, Laboratory of Mental Health, Ministry of Health (Peking University), Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Hui Green
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: Yueqin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Zhaorui
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Baohua
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002668:Child Rearing; D016241:Child of Impaired Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D002681:China; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult