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Mothers with borderline personality and their young children: Adult Attachment Interviews, mother-child interactions, and children's narrative representations.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Macfie, J. H. Halliday Swan, Scott Andrew Fitzpatrick, Katie Lauren Watkins, Christopher David Rivas, E. M. Rebeca |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | Borderline personality disorder (BPD) involves disruptions in attachment, self, and self-regulation, domains conceptually similar to developmental tasks of early childhood. Because offspring of mothers with BPD are at elevated risk of developing BPD themselves (White, Gunderson, Zanarini, & Hudson, 2003), studying them may inform precursors to BPD. We sampled 31 children age 4-7 whose mothers have BPD and 31 normative comparisons. We examined relationships between mothers' Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) representations (George, Kaplan, & Main, 1984), mothers' observed parenting, and children's narrative representations. Replicating previous studies, mothers with BPD were more likely to be classified as preoccupied and unresolved on the AAI. In a larger sample, which included the current one, we also replicated two underlying AAI dimensions found in normative samples (Roisman, Fraley, & Belsky, 2007; Whipple, Bernier, & Mageau, 2011). Controlling for current mood, anxiety, and other personality disorders, mothers with BPD were significantly higher than were comparisons on the preoccupied/unresolved, but not the dismissive, dimension. Children's narrative representations relevant to disruptions in attachment (fear of abandonment and role reversal), self (incongruent child and self/fantasy confusion), and self-regulation (destruction of objects) were significantly correlated with the preoccupied/unresolved, but not the dismissive, dimension. Furthermore, mothers' parenting significantly mediated the relationship between the preoccupied/unresolved dimension and their children's narrative representations of fear of abandonment. |
| Starting Page | E35 |
| Ending Page | E46 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://macfie.utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Macfie2014.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 24622209v1 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1017/S095457941400011X |
| DOI | 10.1017/s095457941400011x |
| Journal | Development and psychopathology |
| Volume Number | 26 |
| Issue Number | 2 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Adult T-Cell Lymphoma/Leukemia Anxiety Disorders Borderline Personality Disorder Classification Confusion Dimensions Emotions Fear (Mental Process) Large Mandibular right second molar tooth Personality Disorders Physical object Psychopathology Sampling - Surgical action Self-control as a personality trait |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
