Association between childhood invalidation and borderline personality symptoms: self-construal and conformity as moderating factors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Linehan (1993)'s biosocial model posits that borderline personality disorder (BPD) symptoms develop as a result of a transactional relationship between pre-existing emotional vulnerability and an invalidating childhood environment. Little work, however, has investigated cultural factors that may influence the relationship between childhood invalidation and BPD symptoms. The present study investigated the association between parental invalidation and BPD symptoms, and the role of conformity and self-construal as potential moderators of this association.

Methods

Two hundred and ninety undergraduate students were recruited from a large university in Singapore and administered questionnaires measuring Asian values, self-construal, parental invalidation, and BPD sympto

SUBMITTER: Keng SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6284292 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature