scholarly journals Development of Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescence and Young Adulthood: Introduction to the Special Section

2011 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie D. Stepp
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Adolescence And Young Adulthood

Affective Processing in Young Adults with Borderline Personality Disorder

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (S1) ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
S. Herpertz
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Affect Regulation ◽  
Young Patients ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Brain Maturation ◽  
Affective Processing ◽  
Future Research

Individuals diagnosed with borderline personality disorder usually seek for treatment as adolescents or young adults. As age progresses, longitudinal studies suggest that borderline patients improve psychosocially, suggesting that they may somewhat belatedly achieve the milestones of young adulthood. Affect regulation may be particularly subject to major changes in young adulthood, as the prefrontal brain areas involved in affective processing underlie maturation processes up into the late third decade. From studies in healthy volunteers we know that that the capacity to process positive affects improves with age. Young adults with borderline personality disorder, however, display a negativity bias in emotion recognition and they have difficulties in inhibiting the recall of negative information. Neuroimaging data suggest that they suffer from deficient implicit affect regulation but they are able to profit from explicit strategies to suppress negative emotions, an observation which could have interesting implications for treatment. Regarding future research more efforts on developmental psychopathology on the one hand, brain maturation on the other will help to further understand the nature of borderline personality disorder. Regarding clinical issues early treatment designed to foster affect regulating competencies and self-esteem and to develop interpersonal skills might benefit young patients diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.

scholarly journals Borderline Personality Disorder in Young People: Associations with Support and Negative Interactions in Relationships with Mothers and a Best Friend

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christel Hessels ◽  
Tessa van den Berg ◽  
Sofie A. Lucassen ◽  
Odilia M. Laceulle ◽  
Marcel A.G. van Aken
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Young People ◽  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Maternal Report ◽  
Best Friend ◽  
Adolescence And Young Adulthood ◽  
Negative Interactions

Abstract Background:Impaired interpersonal functioning has been highlighted as a core feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD). Adolescence and young adulthood form important developmental stages within both the emergence of BPD and the development of interpersonal functioning, which takes place mostly in relationships with parents and friends. This study aimed to: (i) investigate relations between BPD symptoms and both supportive and negative interactions with mothers and best friends; (ii) investigate whether the relations were moderated by age; (iii) test the robustness of our findings by comparing the results based on self-reports with results from a subsample in which supportive and negative interactions with mothers were rated by the mother.Methods312 young people referred to mental healthcare completed self-report measures on BPD and supportive and negative interactions. Multiple regression analyses were conducted to examine the relations between BPD features and perceived supportive and negative interactions with mothers and best friend, and to investigate whether these relations were moderated by age. Robustness of our findings was studied in a subsample (n = 104) by using a multi-informant design in maternal report on supportive and negative interactions with mothers. ResultsMultiple regression analyses demonstrated that negative interactions with mothers as well as with a best friend were related to more BPD symptoms in young people. Supportive interactions were not related to BPD symptoms. Both BPD and quality of relations were not related to age. In a subsample in which supportive and negative interactions with mothers were rated by the mother, the maternal report showed slightly different results. In this model, both supportive and negative interactions with a best friend were positively related, whereas interactions with mothers were not related to BPD symptoms in young people.ConclusionsResults highlight the importance of relationships with mothers and a best friend during adolescence and young adulthood. Given that BPD often emerges during this developmental phase, future research is needed to clarify how quality of relationships could alter pathways toward BPD in young people.

scholarly journals Borderline personality disorder in young people: associations with support and negative interactions in relationships with mothers and a best friend

2022 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christel J. Hessels ◽  
Tessa van den Berg ◽  
Sofie A. Lucassen ◽  
Odilia M. Laceulle ◽  
Marcel A. G. van Aken
Keyword(s):  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Young People ◽  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Maternal Report ◽  
Best Friend ◽  
Adolescence And Young Adulthood ◽  
Negative Interactions

Abstract Background Impaired interpersonal functioning has been highlighted as a core feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD). Adolescence and young adulthood form important developmental stages within both the emergence of BPD and the development of interpersonal functioning, which takes place mostly in relationships with parents and friends. This study aimed to: (i) investigate relations between BPD symptoms and both supportive and negative interactions with mothers and best friends; (ii) investigate whether the relations were moderated by age; (iii) test the robustness of our findings by comparing the results based on self-reports with results from a subsample in which supportive and negative interactions with mothers were rated by the mother. Methods 312 young people referred to mental healthcare completed self-report measures on BPD and supportive and negative interactions. Multiple regression analyses were conducted to examine the relations between BPD features and perceived supportive and negative interactions with mothers and a best friend, and to investigate whether these relations were moderated by age. Robustness of our findings was studied in a subsample (n = 104), by using a multi-informant design in maternal report on supportive and negative interactions with mothers. Results Multiple regression analyses demonstrated that negative interactions with mothers as well as with a best friend were related to more BPD symptoms in young people. Supportive interactions were not related to BPD symptoms. Both BPD and quality of relations were not related to age. In a subsample in which supportive and negative interactions with mothers were rated by the mother, the maternal report showed slightly different results. In this model, both supportive and negative interactions with a best friend were positively related, whereas interactions with mothers were not related to BPD symptoms in young people. Conclusions Results highlight the importance of relationships with mothers and a best friend during adolescence and young adulthood. Given that BPD often emerges during this developmental phase, future research is needed to clarify how quality of relationships could alter pathways toward BPD in young people. Trial registration Not applicable.

Emotion-Oriented Coping Style Predicts Self-Harm in Response to Acute Psychiatric Hospitalization

Crisis ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Jacqueline M. Frei ◽  
Vladimir Sazhin ◽  
Melissa Fick ◽  
Keong Yap
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitalization ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Psychiatric Inpatients ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Therapeutic Interventions ◽  
Coping Behaviors ◽  
Self Harm

Abstract. Psychiatric hospitalization can cause significant distress for patients. Research has shown that to cope with the stress, patients sometimes resort to self-harm. Given the paucity of research on self-harm among psychiatric inpatients, a better understanding of transdiagnostic processes as predictors of self-harm during psychiatric hospitalization is needed. The current study examined whether coping styles predicted self-harm after controlling for commonly associated factors, such as age, gender, and borderline personality disorder. Participants were 72 patients (mean age = 39.32 years, SD = 12.29, 64% male) admitted for inpatient treatment at a public psychiatric hospital in Sydney, Australia. Participants completed self-report measures of coping styles and ward-specific coping behaviors, including self-harm, in relation to coping with the stress of acute hospitalization. Results showed that younger age, diagnosis of borderline personality disorder, and higher emotion-oriented coping were associated with self-harm. After controlling for age and borderline personality disorder, higher levels of emotion-oriented coping were found to be a significant predictor of self-harm. Findings were partially consistent with hypotheses; emotion-oriented but not avoidance-oriented coping significantly predicted self-harm. This finding may help to identify and provide psychiatric inpatients who are at risk of self-harm with appropriate therapeutic interventions.

Comparison of Three Questionnaires to Screen for Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents and Young Adults

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne van Alebeek ◽  
Paul T. van der Heijden ◽  
Christel Hessels ◽  
Melissa S.Y. Thong ◽  
Marcel van Aken
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Adolescents And Young Adults ◽  
Patient Questionnaire ◽  
Statistical Manual ◽  
Axis Ii ◽  
Diagnostic And Statistical Manual ◽  
Dsm Iv

Abstract. One of the most common personality disorders among adolescents and young adults is the Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). The objective of current study was to assess three questionnaires that can reliably screen for BPD in adolescents and young adults (N = 53): the McLean Screening Instrument for BPD (MSI-BPD; Zanarini et al., 2003 ), the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire 4th edition – BPD scale (PDQ-4 BPD; Hyler, 1994 ), and the SCID-II Patient Questionnaire – BPD scale (SCID-II-PQ BPD). The nine criteria of BPD according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV (DSM-IV; APA, 1994 ) were measured with the Structural Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis II disorders – BPD scale (SCID-II; First, Spitzer, Gibbon, Williams, & Benjamin, 1995 ). Correlations between the questionnaires and the SCID-II were calculated. In addition, the sensitivity and specificity of the questionnaires were tested. All instruments predicted the BPD diagnosis equally well.

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