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Dating violence victimization and borderline personality pathology: Temporal associations from late adolescence to early adulthood.

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Vanwoerden, Salome, Leavitt, Jacob, Gallagher, Matthew W., Temple, Jeff R., Sharp, Carla·2019·Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment
DOI 10.1037/per0000324PMC PMC6732254
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Borderline personality pathology is a serious mental illness characterized by pervasive interpersonal deficits that onset during adolescence. Risk factors for borderline personality pathology include maladaptive interpersonal dynamics within attachment relationships. Given the shift toward emphasizing romantic relationships during adolescence as an important attachment relationship with implications for healthy development, the current study aimed to evaluate the longitudinal and reciprocal relations between victimization in dating relationships and borderline pathology in the transition from late adolescence to early adulthood. A large sample of high school daters (N = 818; 58% female; Mage = 16.10 years, SDage = .78) were recruited to complete annual assessments of borderline personality features and dating violence victimization across 5 years. Results of a cross-lagged panel model revealed that primarily among girls, borderline features predicted increased levels of relational, psychological, and physical violence, whereas psychological and sexual violence predicted greater borderline features. The current findings provide the first evidence of a longitudinal association between victimization and borderline pathology in adolescence and suggest, particularly among girls, that interventions for borderline features have important implications for reducing dating violence victimization among adolescents and young adults. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

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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.”

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    The Abstract and Discussion (page numbers unavailable) report that borderline features in adolescents, particularly females, predicted greater dating-violence victimization during the study’s transition into young adulthood. The paper does not establish cumulative polyvictimization across the lifespan, and its own longitudinal findings do not concern adults diagnosed with BPD. (LLM, conf=0.87)

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Authors
Vanwoerden, S., Leavitt, J., Gallagher, M. W., Temple, J. R., & Sharp, C.
Affiliations
  • University of Houston (US)
  • The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (US)
ORCID
Venue
Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment
Publisher
American Psychological Association (APA)
Published
2019-03
Volume
10
Issue
2
Pages
132-142
ISSN
  • 1949-2715 (ISSN-L)
  • 1949-2723
DOI
10.1037/per0000324
PMC
PMC6732254
OpenAlex
W2920068321
Cited by
24
References
45
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 6
FWCI
4.38
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Personality Disorders Theory Research and Treatment (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (K23HD059916)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Social Sciences › Health › Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
Keywords
dating violence victimization, borderline personality traits, romantic relationships, adolescence, early adulthood, attachment relationships, sexual violence, psychological violence, physical violence, bidirectional relationship, gender differences
MeSH terms
Intimate Partner Violence, Adolescent, Adult, Borderline Personality Disorder, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Sex Offenses, Crime Victims, Young Adult

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