TY - JOUR
T1 - Borderline personality features in childhood
T2 - The role of subtype, developmental timing, and chronicity of child maltreatment
AU - Hecht, Kathryn F.
AU - Cicchetti, Dante
AU - Rogosch, Fred A.
AU - Crick, Nicki R.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2014/8
Y1 - 2014/8
N2 - Child maltreatment has been established as a risk factor for borderline personality disorder (BPD), yet few studies consider how maltreatment influences the development of BPD features through childhood and adolescence. Subtype, developmental timing, and chronicity of child maltreatment were examined as factors in the development of borderline personality features in childhood. Children (M age = 11.30, SD = 0.94), including 314 maltreated and 285 nonmaltreated children from comparable low socioeconomic backgrounds, provided self-reports of developmentally salient borderline personality traits. Maltreated children had higher overall borderline feature scores, had higher scores on each individual subscale, and were more likely to be identified as at high risk for development of BPD through raised scores on all four subscales. Chronicity of maltreatment predicted higher overall borderline feature scores, and patterns of onset and recency of maltreatment significantly predicted whether a participant would meet criteria for the high-risk group. Implications of findings and recommendations for intervention are discussed.
AB - Child maltreatment has been established as a risk factor for borderline personality disorder (BPD), yet few studies consider how maltreatment influences the development of BPD features through childhood and adolescence. Subtype, developmental timing, and chronicity of child maltreatment were examined as factors in the development of borderline personality features in childhood. Children (M age = 11.30, SD = 0.94), including 314 maltreated and 285 nonmaltreated children from comparable low socioeconomic backgrounds, provided self-reports of developmentally salient borderline personality traits. Maltreated children had higher overall borderline feature scores, had higher scores on each individual subscale, and were more likely to be identified as at high risk for development of BPD through raised scores on all four subscales. Chronicity of maltreatment predicted higher overall borderline feature scores, and patterns of onset and recency of maltreatment significantly predicted whether a participant would meet criteria for the high-risk group. Implications of findings and recommendations for intervention are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0954579414000406
DO - 10.1017/S0954579414000406
M3 - Article
C2 - 25047300
AN - SCOPUS:84904796277
SN - 0954-5794
VL - 26
SP - 805
EP - 815
JO - Development and psychopathology
JF - Development and psychopathology
IS - 3
ER -