The aim of the current study was to examine the mediating roles of early maladaptive schema domains and emotion regulation difficulties in the relationship between perceived parenting styles and borderline personality traits. According to analysis results, the increase in perceived conditional/achievement focused parenting (i.e., maternal, and paternal) predicted borderline personality traits through the mediation of disconnection and unrelenting standards schema domains and emotion regulation difficulties. Moreover, the increase in perceived maternal exploitative/abusive parenting predicted borderline personality traits through both directly and the mediation of disconnection schema domain. Additively, the increase in perceived paternal exploitative/abusive parenting predicted borderline personality traits also through emotion regulation difficulties as well as schema domains. It has been understood the increase in perceived maternal overprotective/anxious parenting had a predictive role on the borderline personality traits through unrelenting standards schema domain and emotion regulation difficulties. Furthermore, perceived paternal restricted/emotionally inhibited parenting predicted increases in borderline personality traits in two ways: directly and through the mediation of disconnection schema domain and emotion regulation difficulties. Finally, perceived paternal over permissive/boundless parenting predicted borderline personality traits through disconnection schema domain and emotion regulation difficulties. Although physical and sexual abuse has been especially emphasized in the etiology of borderline personality symptoms, this study highlighted the importance of basic emotional needs that might play a role in the development of borderline personality symptoms by addressing the early life experiences more comprehensively on the basis of different parenting styles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]