ArticleJournal of personality disorders2018
Attachment-Related Regulatory Processes Moderate the Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Stress Reaction in Borderline Personality Disorder.
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- Childhood Adversities and Salivary Cortisol Responses to the Trier Social Stress Test: A Systematic Review of Studies Using the Children Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Pooled it
- Reduced vagal activity in borderline personality disorder is unaffected by intranasal oxytocin administration, but predicted by the interaction between childhood trauma and attachment insecurity.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2022Trial
- Attachment insecurity, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and suicidality in French residential-care adolescents: a gender-differentiated study.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2025Article
- Effects of insecure attachment on fMRI resting state functional connectivity in poly drug use disorder.PloS one · 2025Observational
- The Hypothalamus-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis and Social Cognition in Borderline Personality Disorder.Current neuropharmacology · 2024Review
- Effects of Maternal Separation and Subsequent Stress on Behaviors and Brain Monoamines in Rats.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Relationship Dysfunction in Couples When One Partner Is Diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder: Findings from a Pilot Study.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Mentalizing partially mediates the association between attachment insecurity and global stress in preservice teachers.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Developmental trauma: Conceptual framework, associated risks and comorbidities, and evaluation and treatment.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Review
- Evaluation of a short version of the Experiences in Close Relationships-Revised questionnaire (ECR-RD8): results from a representative German sample.BMC psychology · 2021Article
- The roles of attachment and emotion dysregulation in the association between childhood maltreatment and PTSD in an inner-city sample.Child abuse & neglect · 2021Article
- The impact of psychological attachment on the relationship between periodontal health and dental fear in patients with versus without psoriasis: a questionnaire-based, cross-sectional study.BMC oral health · 2021Article
- Psychophysiological stress response and memory in borderline personality disorder.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2019Article
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In this study, the authors explored whether attachment insecurity moderates the effects of adverse childhood experiences on stress reactivity in the context of borderline personality disorder (BPD). Participants were 113 women (39 with BPD, 15 with some BPD criteria present, 59 without any BPD symptoms) who participated in the Trier Social Stress Test. Saliva samples were collected before and after the stressor and assayed for salivary alpha-amylase (sAA) and cortisol. Adverse childhood experiences were measured using the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire, and attachment by the Experiences in Close Relationships-Revised questionnaire. Results revealed that attachment avoidance and a combination of more adverse childhood experiences and attachment insecurity resulted in higher sAA levels and differences in reactivity to the stressor. Interactions between attachment anxiety and adverse childhood experiences were related to blunted cortisol reactivity. The results suggest that the influence of adverse childhood experiences on stress regulation in BPD may be moderated by attachment-related regulatory processes.
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