Attachment, Parental Bonding and Borderline Personality Disorder Features in Young Adults

Abstract

The relations between parental bonding and attachment constructs and borderline personality disorder features were examined in a sample of 393 18-year-old participants. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that parental bonding and attachment scores (especially insecure attachment, anxious or ambivalent attachment, and a perception of a relative lack of caring from one's mother) were uniquely associated with borderline features beyond what could be accounted for by gender, childhood adversity experiences, Axis I disorder, and nonborderline Axis II symptoms. Although relatively modest, these relations suggest that bonding and attachment constructs might be considered in comprehensive etiological models of borderline personality disorder.

Estudio sobre aspectos etiológicos de la patología dual

“…Sin embargo, haber tenido relaciones próximas con la madre sí se relaciona con una menor probabilidad de presentar TP límite, en consonancia con otros estudios que evaluaban variables similares a ésta y, como dato curioso, con una edad de inicio en el consumo de benzodiacepinas más temprano, siendo ésta la única correlación significativa que va en dirección contraria a las hipótesis planteadas [57][58] . Los autores sugieren que quizás las mujeres usen en mayor proporción benzodiacepinas como medicación ansiolítica lo que facilitaría el acceso temprano de sus hijos a las mismas.…”

Adaptação transcultural para o português brasileiro do Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI)

“…[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][25][26][27][28][29] The stability of the PBI over a 20-year period, in a primarily non-clinical population has been recently confirmed. Such study was controlled for gender, physical, and mental health (including mood changes and neuroticism), aspects of lifestyle, work and social network, besides significant life events (positive and negative).…”

“…Studies in humans and in animal models have demonstrated that, besides constitutional aspects, the actual parental behavior of offering tenderness and protection without restricting autonomy is crucial both to develop the ability of dealing with adverse situations in adult life and to reduce the risk of psychopathology, as well as to allow the establishment of healthy affectionate bonds. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] This effect seems to take place through behavioral factors, but also due to definitive neurobiological alterations and modeling of gene expression. It has a direct impact on genetically inherited risk factors and resilience.…”

The Specific Role of Childhood Abuse, Parental Bonding, and Family Functioning in Female Adolescents With Borderline Personality Disorder

“…Retrospective investigations among adults with BPD consistently demonstrate the presence of early traumatic experiences such as traumatic separations (Bandelow et al, 2005;Zanarini, Gunderson, Marino, Schwartz, & Frankenburg, 1989), physical abuse (Links, Steiner, Offord, & Eppel, 1988;Paris, Zweig-Frank, & Guzder, 1994;Zanarini et al, 1989;, emotional neglect (Paris & Frank, 1989;Zweig-Frank & Paris, 1991), low care and overprotection, especially from mother (Byrne, Velamoor, Cernovsky, Cortese, & Losztyn, 1990;Nickell, Waudby, & Trull, 2002;Torgerson & Alnaes, 1992), and sexual abuse (Elzy, 2011;Ferraz et al, 2013;Shearer, Peters, Quaytman, & Ogden, 1990;Zanarini et al, 2002). Paris and colleagues (1994) considered childhood sexual abuse a substantial risk factor for the development of BPD; indeed, numerous studies suggest that sexual abuse occurs more frequently in the childhood histories of adult BPD patients than in many other psychiatric disorders (Ogata, Silk, & Goodrich, 1990;Paris et al, 1994;.…”