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Borderline symptoms and suicidality/self-injury in late adolescence: Prospectively observed relationship correlates in infancy and childhood
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The primary objective was to assess whether prospectively observed quality of parent-child interaction in infancy and middle childhood contributed to the prediction of borderline symptoms and recurrent suicidality/self-injury in late adolescence. Adolescents (mean 19.9 years) from 56 families participating in a longitudinal study since infancy (retention rate 74%) were assessed on the SCID-II for symptoms of borderline personality disorder (BPD), including suicidality/self-injury. Early clinical risk was indexed by clinical referral to parent-infant services. Attachment security and parent-child interaction were assessed from videotape at 18 months and 8 years. Severity of childhood abuse was rated from interview and self-report measures. Maternal withdrawal in infancy was a significant predictor of both borderline symptoms and suicidality/self-injury in late adolescence. Disorganized controlling child behavior at age 8 contributed independently to the prediction of borderline symptoms. The effect of maternal withdrawal was independent of, and additive to, variability explained by severity of childhood abuse. Borderline symptoms and suicidality/self-injury may be preceded developmentally by disturbed interactions as early as 18 months of age. A parent-child transactional model is proposed to account for the findings.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Lyons-Ruth, K., Bureau, J.-F., Holmes, B., Easterbrooks, A., & Brooks, N. H.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- Tufts University (US)
- Venue
- Psychiatry Research
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2013-04
- Volume
- 206
- Issue
- 2-3
- Pages
- 273-281
- ISSN
- 0165-1781 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3605274
- OpenAlex
- W2154870167
- Cited by
- 170
- References
- 89
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 11.28
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Psychiatry Research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Sid W. Richardson Foundation
- Harvard University
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH35122, R01MH062030, R01MH06030)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Keywords
- borderline symptoms, suicidality, self-harm, late adolescence, parent-child interaction, attachment security, childhood abuse, infancy, middle childhood, transactional model, developmental prediction
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Borderline Personality Disorder, Child, Child Abuse, Female, Humans, Infant, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Mother-Child Relations, Object Attachment, Parent-Child Relations, Prospective Studies, Risk Factors, Cohort Studies, Linear Models, Logistic Models, Self-Injurious Behavior, Young Adult, Suicidal Ideation
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