TY - JOUR
T1 - Validation of measures of biosocial precursors to borderline personality disorder
T2 - Childhood emotional vulnerability and environmental invalidation
AU - Sauer, Shannon E.
AU - Baer, Ruth A.
PY - 2010/12
Y1 - 2010/12
N2 - Linehan's biosocial theory suggests that borderline personality disorder (BPD) results from a transaction of two childhood precursors: emotional vulnerability and an invalidating environment. Until recently, few empirical studies have explored relationships between these theoretical precursors and symptoms of the disorder. Psychometrically sound assessment tools are essential to this area of research. The present study examined psychometric characteristics of recently developed self-report measures of childhood emotional vulnerability and parental invalidation. A large sample of undergraduates completed these measures; parent reports were collected to examine agreement between young adults' and parents' recollections of their emotional style in childhood and the parenting they received. Both measures were internally consistent, showed clear factor structures, and were significantly correlated with BPD features and related constructs. In addition, both showed modest, yet significant agreement between participants' and parents' reports. Overall, this study supports the utility of these measures of childhood emotional vulnerability and environmental invalidation.
AB - Linehan's biosocial theory suggests that borderline personality disorder (BPD) results from a transaction of two childhood precursors: emotional vulnerability and an invalidating environment. Until recently, few empirical studies have explored relationships between these theoretical precursors and symptoms of the disorder. Psychometrically sound assessment tools are essential to this area of research. The present study examined psychometric characteristics of recently developed self-report measures of childhood emotional vulnerability and parental invalidation. A large sample of undergraduates completed these measures; parent reports were collected to examine agreement between young adults' and parents' recollections of their emotional style in childhood and the parenting they received. Both measures were internally consistent, showed clear factor structures, and were significantly correlated with BPD features and related constructs. In addition, both showed modest, yet significant agreement between participants' and parents' reports. Overall, this study supports the utility of these measures of childhood emotional vulnerability and environmental invalidation.
KW - assessment
KW - borderline personality disorder
KW - childhood emotional vulnerability
KW - invalidating environment
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U2 - 10.1177/1073191110373226
DO - 10.1177/1073191110373226
M3 - Article
C2 - 20644079
AN - SCOPUS:78049363758
SN - 1073-1911
VL - 17
SP - 454
EP - 466
JO - Assessment
JF - Assessment
IS - 4
ER -