title: The impact of self-reported childhood trauma on emotion regulation in borderline personality disorder and major depression.
abstract: Early life stress is said to play a critical role in the development of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and major depressive disorder (MDD), but the underlying mediating factors remain uncertain. This study aimed to investigate self-reported childhood trauma, emotion regulation difficulties, and their associations in a sample of BPD (n = 49) and MDD (n = 48) patients and healthy control participants (n = 63). Multiple regressions were used to evaluate the impact of the quality and severity of self-reported childhood trauma on self-reported emotion regulation. The results supported an association between self-reported maltreatment experiences, especially emotional abuse and neglect, and emotion regulation difficulties. Additional analyses showed that emotion regulation difficulties influence the association between self-reported emotional abuse and acute symptomatology in the BPD subgroup. Emotion regulation difficulties may be 1 pathway through which early life stress, particularly emotional abuse, increases the risk for developing BPD symptomatology.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Research, Clinic of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Bethel , Ev. Hospital Bielefeld , Bielefeld , Germany.
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Carvalho Fernando
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Beblo
authors.forename: Nicole
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Schlosser
authors.forename: Kirsten
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Terfehr
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Otte
authors.forename: Bernd
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Löwe
authors.forename: Oliver Tobias
authors.initials: OT
authors.lastname: Wolf
authors.forename: Carsten
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Spitzer
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Driessen
authors.forename: Katja
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wingenfeld
mesh_terms: D054523:Adult Survivors of Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology*; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D015897:Comorbidity; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003865:Major Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012650:Self Disclosure; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: borderline personality disorder; childhood trauma; emotion regulation; major depression