Exposure to interparental intimate partner violence and the development of borderline features in adolescents
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Background Due to associated trauma, exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) is considered a form of child maltreatment, and is associated with heightened risk for mental health problems.Objective To evaluate associations between exposure to interparental IPV and the prospective development of borderline features in adolescents.Participants and setting A diverse sample of 1,042 adolescents were recruited from public high schools throughout southeastern United States and followed annually for 5 years. Baseline mean age was 15.09 (SD = .79; range 13-18), and 56 % of the sample was female; 31.4 % (n = 327) were Hispanic, 29.4 % (n = 306) were White/not Hispanic, 27.9 % (n = 291) were African American, 3.6 % (n = 38) were Asian or Pacific Islander, and 7.7 % (n = 80) were mixed or another race.Methods Exposure to interparental IPV and the quality of the parent-child relationship were assessed at baseline. Borderline features were assessed annually for the each of the five follow-up timepoints. Latent growth curve modeling was used to estimate the course of change of BPD features over time.Results Consistent with expectations, and controlling for quality of parent-child relationships and sociodemographic confounds, findings demonstrated that IPV exposure related to both cross-sectional association between interparental IPV and adolescents' borderline features and change in borderline features over a 5-year period.Conclusion Adolescents who had witnessed interparental IPV were more likely to have higher levels of BPD features at baseline and to deviate from the typically observed normative decline in BPD features over the 4-year follow-up period.
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Adults with BPD and adolescents with BPD features also are at increased risk for abuse or re-victimization as adults and for cumulative polyvictimization across the lifespan.
“Adults with BPD [14, 96, 98, 118, 121] and adolescents with BPD features [89, 154, 182] also are at increased risk for abuse or re-victimization as adults and for cumulative polyvictimization across the lifespan.”
From Complex PTSD and borderline personality disorder (2021) · cites this paper as [154]
The Discussion reports that childhood exposure to interparental violence is associated with adolescent BPD features, and discusses later IPV perpetration—not later victimization. Searches for re-victimization and cumulative polyvictimization found no passage saying that adolescents with BPD features face increased risk of either outcome. (LLM, conf=0.75)
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- Authors
- Sharp, C., Vanwoerden, S., Jouriles, E. N., Godfrey, D. A., Babcock, J., McLaren, V., McFarlane, J., Brashear, B., Walton, Q., & Temple, J. R.
- Affiliations
- University of Houston (US)
- Southern Methodist University (US)
- Texas Woman's University (US)
- The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (US)
- Corresponding author
- Sharp, Carla
- ORCID
- Venue
- Child Abuse & Neglect
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2020-05
- Volume
- 103
- Pages
- 104448
- ISSN
- 0145-2134 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC10176899
- OpenAlex
- W3010917778
- Cited by
- 34
- References
- 79
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 2
- FWCI
- 2.90
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Child Abuse & Neglect (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Hogg Foundation for Mental Health
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Keywords
- borderline personality traits, adolescents, domestic violence exposure, parent-child relationship quality, child abuse, longitudinal development, high school students
- MeSH terms
- Intimate Partner Violence, Exposure to Violence, Adolescent, Mental Disorders, Child, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Humans, Male, Prospective Studies, Schools, Southeastern United States
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