Socioeconomic background and the developmental course of schizotypal and borderline personality disorder symptoms

Content Provider	Scilit
Author	Cohen, Patricia Chen, Henian Gordon, Kathy Johnson, Jeffrey Brook, Judith Kasen, Stephanie
Copyright Year	2008
Description	Low socioeconomic status (SES) background has been identified as a risk for several mental disorders. However evidence regarding SES and the developmental course of personality disorder (PD) has not been addressed. Nor is it clear whether an SES relationship to PD symptom course may be attributable to known associated risks. Further, specificity of such relationships to a particular PD diagnostic pattern independent of comorbidity with other PD or with depression has not been investigated. Data are from a general population studied longitudinally between ages 10 and 36 in four assessment waves. Effects of SES-associated risks on the level of symptoms of schizotypal and borderline disorders are estimated and compared to effects on depressive symptoms. Low family SES had robust modest independent effects on both PDs over the entire age span despite substantial cumulative effects of trauma history, stressful recent life events, IQ, poor parenting, and comorbid symptoms. SES effects on depressive symptoms were generally absent, but a small “protective” effect of low SES appeared when comorbidity with PD symptoms was taken into account. Cumulatively, these risks account for developmental failures of substantial magnitude and consequence, marking the importance of understanding the remaining mechanisms of SES effects and programmatic implications for minimizing associated risk.
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Ending Page	650
Page Count	18
Starting Page	633
ISSN	09545794
e-ISSN	14692198
DOI	10.1017/s095457940800031x
Journal	Development and psychopathology
Issue Number	2
Volume Number	20
Language	English
Publisher	Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publisher Date	2008-01-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Development and psychopathology Clinical Psychology Social Psychology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Developmental and Educational Psychology Psychiatry and Mental Health