ArticlePersonality disorders2014
An 11-item measure to assess borderline traits in adolescents: refinement of the BPFSC using IRT.
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Influences on and Prevention of Self-harm Behaviour Among the Most At-risk Adolescents
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53 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Interventions for self-harm in children and adolescents.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Is mentalization-based therapy effective in treating the symptoms of borderline personality disorder? A systematic review.Psychology and psychotherapy · 2019Pooled it
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- Efficacy of Mentalization-based group therapy for adolescents: the results of a pilot randomised controlled trial.BMC psychiatry · 2019Trial
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- Influences on and prevention of self-harm behavior among the most at-risk adolescents: study protocol for the SH-MARA prospective longitudinal cohort study.BMC psychiatry · 2025Article
- Predictors of suicide attempt among subjects who were previously exposed to sexual abuse.The International journal of social psychiatry · 2025Article
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Abstract
Despite historical concerns about the validity of the construct of borderline personality disorder (BPD) in adolescence, there is now general consensus that BPD in adolescence constitutes a valid and reliable diagnosis. Yet the development and refinement of measures to assess borderline traits in adolescents is in its infancy. Moreover, brief and easy-to-administer measures of borderline traits for use in large-scale studies do not exist. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the Borderline Personality Features Scale for Children (BPFSC; Crick, Murray-Close, & Woods, 2005) and develop a short version of the BPFSC through the use of item response theory (IRT) methods. BPFSC data from a community sample of 964 adolescents (mean age = 15.1 years, SD = .79; 55.9% female) were used to examine the factor structure of the BPFSC. The hypothesized 4-factor structure was not supported. The unidimensional IRT analysis showed instances of local dependence among item pairs and item responses that were not strongly related to the underlying construct. As a consequence, items were eliminated, creating a unidimensional 11-item brief BPFSC (the BPFSC-11). Next, evidence of construct validity of scores based on the shortened version was evaluated using a different sample of 371 inpatient adolescents. We demonstrated similar indices of construct validity as observed for the BPFSC total score with the BPFSC-11 scores and found evidence for good criterion validity. Use of the BPFSC-11 in clinical settings will reduce the burden on respondents without loss of information.
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