title: Severity of borderline personality symptoms in adolescence: relationship with maternal parenting stress, maternal psychopathology, and rearing styles.
abstract: The development of borderline personality disorder (BPD) has been associated with parenting styles and parental psychopathology. Only a few studies have examined current parental rearing styles and parental psychopathology in relationship to BPD symptoms in adolescents. Moreover, parenting stress has not been examined in this group. The current study examined 101 adolescents (14-19 years old) with BPD symptoms and their mothers. Assessments were made on severity of BPD symptoms, youth-perceived maternal rearing styles, and psychopathology and parenting stress in mothers. Multiple regression analyses were used to examine potential predictors of borderline severity. No correlation was found between severity of BPD symptoms in adolescents and parenting stress. Only youth-perceived maternal overprotection was significantly related to BPD severity. The combination of perceived maternal rejection with cluster B traits in mothers was significantly related to BPD severity in adolescents. This study provides a contribution to the disentanglement of the developmental pathways that lead to BPD.
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Centre Groningen, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: H Marieke
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Schuppert
authors.affiliation: 2 Department of Psychometrics and Statistical Methods, University of Groningen, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: Casper J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Albers
authors.affiliation: 1 Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Centre Groningen, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: Ruud B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Minderaa
authors.affiliation: 3 Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
authors.forename: Paul M G
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Emmelkamp
authors.affiliation: 4 Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Groningen, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: Maaike H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Nauta
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002668:Child Rearing / Q000523:psychology; D016241:Child of Impaired Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D016487:Parenting; D010551:Personality; D011599:Psychopathology; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000209:etiology*