ArticlePersonality disorders2018
Dynamic associations between borderline personality disorder and stressful life events over five years in older adults.
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- A systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis of 30 years of stress generation research: Clinical, psychological, and sociodemographic risk and protective factors for prospective negative life events.Psychological bulletin · 2024Pooled it
- Destigmatizing borderline personality disorder with social justice and intersectional cultural humility: How researchers can construct and deconstruct stigma.Feminism & psychology · 2025Article
- Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms and Stressful Life Events: An Evaluation of Gene-Environment Interplay.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2024Article
- Key insights from studies on the stability of personality disorders in different age groups.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Review
- Borderline personality disorder: associations with psychiatric disorders, somatic illnesses, trauma, and adverse behaviors.Molecular psychiatry · 2022Article
- Prospective self- and informant-personality associations with inflammation, health behaviors, and health indicators.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2022Article
- Personality pathology predicts increased informant-reported, but not performance-based, cognitive decline: Findings from two samples.Personality disorders · 2022Article
- The reciprocal impacts of adversity and personality traits: A prospective longitudinal study of growth, change, and the power of personality.Journal of personality · 2021Article
- Borderline Personality Disorder and Loneliness: Broadening the Scope of Treatment for Social Rehabilitation.Harvard review of psychiatryReview
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Abstract
The time course of borderline personality disorder (BPD) is far more variable than traditionally assumed. Shifting environmental conditions are theorized to account, at least in part, for fluctuations in symptom presentation over time. In the present study, we evaluated the reciprocal influences of stressful life events and borderline pathology in a representative community sample of 1,630 older adults assessed 3 times over 5 years. An autoregressive cross-lagged model revealed strong, but imperfect, stability in symptoms of BPD over the study time frame. After adjusting for this continuity in BPD, the prospective effect of life stress on borderline pathology was virtually nil, contrary to expectations. On the other hand, borderline pathology was prospectively related to subsequent dependent event (i.e., stressors to which individuals may have contributed), but not independent event (i.e., fateful stressors), exposure. This pattern of associations was consistent with a stress generation effect. We conclude that stressful life events do not substantially redirect the trajectory of BPD in older adults, possibly owing to inertia of borderline pathology at this developmental stage. Instead, symptoms of BPD seem to promote stress exposure, thereby setting the stage for continued social impairment and comorbid psychiatric problems. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).
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