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The Protective Role of Attachment Security for Adolescent Borderline Personality Disorder Features via Enhanced Positive Emotion Regulation Strategies
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Results indicated that positive and negative emotion regulation strategies were differentially implicated in the link between attachment insecurity and BPD features, and interventions in the developmental trajectory of BPD as it unfolds during adolescence were discussed.Abstract:
While studies have documented significant associations between insecure attachment, emotion dysregulation, and borderline personality disorder (BPD) features, no research to date has empirically delineated the specific mechanisms by which these constructs are related. The present study brings together 2 lines of research that have hitherto separately examined attachment disturbance and emotion dysregulation as they respectively manifest in the pathogenesis of BPD, and explores the complex relations between the 2 well-established correlates of borderline traits in a clinical sample of adolescents (N = 228). We examined the adolescents' use of positive and negative emotion regulation strategies, along with their maternal and paternal attachment security. Results indicated that positive and negative emotion regulation strategies were differentially implicated in the link between attachment insecurity and BPD features. Attachment security functioned as a buffer against adolescent BPD by enhancing positive emotion regulation strategies, while negative emotion regulation strategies served to dilute the protective effect of attachment and positive regulation strategies, culminating in clinically significant levels of borderline traits. Findings are discussed with regard to interventions in the developmental trajectory of BPD as it unfolds during adolescence.read more
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A systematic review of the parenting and outcomes experienced by offspring of mothers with borderline personality pathology: Potential mechanisms and clinical implications.
TL;DR: Overall, studies suggest that mothers with BPD/BPD symptoms are more likely to engage in maladaptive interactions with their offspring characterised by insensitive, overprotective, and hostile parenting compared to mothers without BPD or BPD symptoms.
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Parent-child attachment and children's experience and regulation of emotion: A meta-analytic review
Jessica E. Cooke,Logan B Kochendorfer,Kaela L Stuart-Parrigon,Amanda J Koehn,Kathryn A. Kerns +4 more
TL;DR: In this article, a meta-analytic review assessed the strength of associations of parent-child attachment patterns with the experience and regulation of emotion in children under age 18 years in a series of meta-analyses (k = 72 studies, N's ranged from 87 to 9,167), examined children's positive and negative affective experiences (assessed either globally or elicited in specific contexts), emotion regulation ability, and coping strategies.
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First empirical evaluation of the link between attachment, social cognition and borderline features in adolescents
Carla Sharp,Carla Sharp,Amanda Venta,Salome Vanwoerden,Salome Vanwoerden,Andrew T. Schramm,Carolyn Ha,Carolyn Ha,Elizabeth Newlin,Radhika Reddy,Peter Fonagy +10 more
TL;DR: The study provides the first empirical evidence of well-established theoretical approaches to the development of BPD, suggesting that, in a multiple mediation model, hypermentalizing and emotion dysregulation together mediated the relation between attachment coherence and borderline features, but that this effect was driven byhypermentalizing.
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Early adverse experience and substance addiction: dopamine, oxytocin, and glucocorticoid pathways.
Sohye Kim,Stephanie I Kwok,Linda C. Mayes,Marc N. Potenza,Helena J. V. Rutherford,Lane Strathearn +5 more
TL;DR: How early adverse experience may induce long‐lasting alterations in each of these systems at molecular, neuroendocrine, and behavioral levels and ultimately lead to heightened vulnerability to substance addiction is delineated.
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The Security Scale as a measure of attachment: meta-analytic evidence of validity
TL;DR: Overall, findings suggest that the SS is a robust measure of attachment in middle childhood and early adolescence.
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