1. Longitudinal development of risk-taking and self-injurious behavior in association with late adolescent borderline personality disorder symptoms.
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Ghinea D, Koenig J, Parzer P, Brunner R, Carli V, Hoven CW, Sarchiapone M, Wasserman D, Resch F, and Kaess M
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- Adolescent, Borderline Personality Disorder psychology, Female, Germany epidemiology, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Prospective Studies, Self-Injurious Behavior psychology, Social Behavior, Surveys and Questionnaires, Adolescent Behavior psychology, Borderline Personality Disorder diagnosis, Borderline Personality Disorder epidemiology, Risk-Taking, Self-Injurious Behavior diagnosis, Self-Injurious Behavior epidemiology
- Abstract
Self-injurious behavior and risk-taking behaviors are associated with adolescent borderline personality disorder (BPD). Developmental trajectories of self-injurious and risk-taking behavior in predicting BPD have not been fully understood. The aim of the present study was to examine self-injurious and risk-taking behavior development and their prospective influence on BPD symptoms in adolescence. Data (n = 506; 62.06 % females, 14.53 years) from the German Saving and Empowering Young Lives in Europe cohort were analyzed. Self-injurious and risk-taking behaviors were assessed at baseline and one-year follow-up. BPD symptoms were assessed at two-year follow-up. In fully adjusted stepwise binominal regression analyses, recent onset, termination and maintenance of risky alcohol use and self-injurious behavior remained as significant predictors of BPD. Highest ORs were found for alcohol termination and maintenance of self-injurious behavior. Other facets of risk-taking behavior were not associated with increased ORs of BPD symptoms at two-year follow-up. These findings highlight the importance of self-injurious behavior and specific facets of risk-taking behavior in the development of adolescent BPD. Clinicians should focus on efforts in preventing adolescents from risk-taking and self-injurious behavior, since engaging in young age and therefore in potentially longer periods of these behaviors is associated with the highest risk of BPD., (Copyright © 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
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- 2019
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