title: Borderline personality disorder features, emotion dysregulation and non-suicidal self-injury: Preliminary findings in a sample of community-dwelling Italian adolescents.
abstract: In order to assess the relationships among borderline personality disorder features, non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) and emotion dysregulation, 122 community-dwelling Italian adolescents were administered by the Italian translations of the Borderline Personality Features Scale for Children-11, the Deliberate Self-Harm Inventory and the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS). Regression models showed that both Deliberate Self-Harm Inventory (DSHI) and DERS scores significantly predicted Borderline Personality Features Scale for Children-11 total score; moreover, the DSHI total score significantly predicted the DERS total score. Our findings suggest that borderline personality features in adolescence are moderately, albeit significantly related to NSSI, and that emotion dysregulation does not completely account for the association between borderline personality features and NSSI, although it seems to explain a non-trivial proportion of this relationship. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
authors.affiliation: LUMSA University, Rome, Italy.|San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Antonella
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Somma
authors.affiliation: University of Houston and The Menninger Clinic, Houston, Texas, USA.
authors.forename: Carla
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sharp
authors.affiliation: Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, and San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Serena
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Borroni
authors.affiliation: LUMSA University, Rome, Italy.|San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fossati
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000453:epidemiology; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior / Q000453:epidemiology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult