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Borderline personality features and emotion regulation deficits are associated with child physical abuse potential.

Abstract：

:The present study extends prior research examining the association between borderline personality disorder (BPD) features and child physical abuse (CPA) risk. We hypothesized that: (1) high CPA risk parents (compared to low CPA risk parents) would more often report clinically elevated levels of BPD features; (2) high CPA risk parents with elevated BPD features would represent a particularly high-risk subgroup; and (3) the association between elevated BPD features and CPA risk would be partially explained by emotion regulation difficulties. General population parents (N=106; 41.5% fathers) completed self-report measures of BPD features, CPA risk, and emotion regulation difficulties. Results support the prediction that BPD features are more prevalent among high (compared to low) CPA risk parents. Among the parents classified as high CPA risk (n=45), one out of three (33.3%) had elevated BPD features. In contrast, none of the 61 low CPA risk parents reported elevated BPD symptoms. Moreover, 100% of the parents with elevated BPD features (n=15) were classified as high-risk for CPA. As expected, high CPA risk parents with elevated BPD features (compared to high CPA risk parents with low BPD features) obtained significantly higher scores on several Child Abuse Potential Inventory scales, including the overall abuse scale (d=1.03). As predicted, emotion regulation difficulties partially explained the association between BPD features and CPA risk. Findings from the present study suggest that a subset of high CPA risk parents in the general population possess clinically significant levels of BPD symptoms and these parents represent an especially high-risk subgroup. Interventions designed to address BPD symptoms, including emotion regulation difficulties, appear to be warranted in these cases.

journal_name

Child Abuse Negl

journal_title

Child abuse & neglect

authors

Hiraoka R,Crouch JL,Reo G,Wagner MF,Milner JS,Skowronski JJ

doi

10.1016/j.chiabu.2015.10.023

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2016-02-01 00:00:00

pages

177-84

eissn

0145-2134

issn

1873-7757

pii

S0145-2134(15)00381-6

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pub_type

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Borderline personality features and emotion regulation deficits are associated with child physical abuse potential.