TY - JOUR
T1 - Reciprocal influences of parent-adolescent borderline personality symptoms over three years
AU - Kaufman, Erin A.
AU - Victor, Sarah
AU - Hipwell, Alison E.
AU - Stepp, Stephanie D.
N1 - Funding Information:
From University of Western Ontario, Department of Psychology, London, Ontario, Canada (E. A. K.); Texas Tech University, Department of Psychology, Lubbock, Texas (S. E. V.); and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (A. E. H., S. D. S.). We gratefully acknowledge the PGS co-investigators, Drs. Kathryn E. Keenan and Tammy Chung, as well as the study staff and participants. This research was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health (T32 MH018269, PI: Tina R. Goldstein; R01 MH056630, PI: Rolf Loeber).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Guilford Press.
PY - 2020/6
Y1 - 2020/6
N2 - Leading etiological theories implicate the family environment in shaping borderline personality disorder (BPD). Although a substantive literature explores familial aggregation of this condition, most studies focus on parent influence(s) on offspring symptoms without examining youth symptom influence on the parent. The current study investigated reciprocal relations between parent and adolescent BPD symptoms over time. Participants were 498 dyads composed of urban-living girls and their parents enrolled in a longitudinal cohort study (Pittsburgh Girls Study). The authors examined BPD severity scores assessed yearly when youth were ages 15–17 years in a series of cross-lagged panel models. After controlling for auto-regressive effects, a measure of parent–child conflict, and an indicator of socioeconomic status, evidence of parental influence on adolescent symptoms did not emerge. However, adolescent BPD symptoms at age 16 predicted greater parent BPD symptoms at age 17 above the influence of depression. Results highlight the importance of considering the influence of youth BPD on parental symptoms.
AB - Leading etiological theories implicate the family environment in shaping borderline personality disorder (BPD). Although a substantive literature explores familial aggregation of this condition, most studies focus on parent influence(s) on offspring symptoms without examining youth symptom influence on the parent. The current study investigated reciprocal relations between parent and adolescent BPD symptoms over time. Participants were 498 dyads composed of urban-living girls and their parents enrolled in a longitudinal cohort study (Pittsburgh Girls Study). The authors examined BPD severity scores assessed yearly when youth were ages 15–17 years in a series of cross-lagged panel models. After controlling for auto-regressive effects, a measure of parent–child conflict, and an indicator of socioeconomic status, evidence of parental influence on adolescent symptoms did not emerge. However, adolescent BPD symptoms at age 16 predicted greater parent BPD symptoms at age 17 above the influence of depression. Results highlight the importance of considering the influence of youth BPD on parental symptoms.
KW - Adolescents
KW - Borderline personality disorder
KW - Developmental psychopathology
KW - Parent–child relations
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85090213043&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1521/pedi_2020_34_483
DO - 10.1521/pedi_2020_34_483
M3 - Article
C2 - 32539621
SN - 0885-579X
VL - 34
SP - 130
EP - 145
JO - Journal of Personality Disorders
JF - Journal of Personality Disorders
ER -