SynthesisPloS one2019
Parenting and personality disorder: An overview and meta-synthesis of systematic reviews.
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- Turkısh women's experıences of early and forced marrıage: a meta-synthesıs study.Archives of women's mental health · 2025Pooled it
- Emotion Regulation, Parenting, and Psychopathology: A Systematic Review.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2024Pooled it
- A qualitative description of the daily living functioning of people diagnosed with borderline personality disorder from consumer, carer and clinician perspectives.Australian occupational therapy journal · 2026Review
- A scoping review of programmes that address the daily living functioning of people diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry · 2026Article
- Preconception parental personality disorder and psychosocial outcomes during the perinatal period: a prospective population-based study.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Article
- Borderline personality disorder in East Asian adolescents: a comprehensive review of research on assessment, etiology, and treatment.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Are Parent Substance Use Severity and Psychopathology Associated with Parenting Behaviors Among Parents with Substance Use Disorders?Parenting, science and practice · 2026Article
- The Mediational Intervention for Sensitizing Caregivers: an evaluation of feasibility and acceptability among mothers with borderline personality disorder.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2025Article
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- Supporting parents with borderline personality disorder through a parenting group intervention: a randomized controlled trial.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2025Article
- Why does perceived parenting in adolescence predict maladaptive personality in adulthood? Evidence for substantial genetic mediation.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- Reinforcing Gaps? A Rapid Review of Innovation in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Treatment.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Intergenerational transmission of borderline personality disorder features, shame, and non-suicidal self-injury through perceived parental invalidation.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2025Article
- Navigating parenthood in people living with borderline personality disorder: a meta-ethnography.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2025Article
- Childhood predictors of avoidant personality disorder traits in adolescence: a seven-wave birth cohort study.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Article
- Interactive behavior in mothers with and without borderline personality disorder: non-hostile behavior is associated with stronger neural activation of the theory of mind network in response to sad faces of the own child.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Metabolomic Changes in Major Depressive Disorder Adolescent Females with or without Suicide Attempts.Current neuropharmacology · 2025Article
- Early maladaptive schema, attachment style, and parenting style in a clinical population with personality disorder and normal individuals: a discriminant analysis model.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Fathers' mental Ill-health and child maltreatment: A systematic review of the literature.Children and youth services review · 2024Article
- Mentalizing in Adolescents with Borderline Personality Disorder.Brain sciences · 2023Review
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Abstract
BACKGROUND/
objectivesMaladaptive parenting (including childhood maltreatment, abuse and neglect) has been implicated in the scientific literature exploring the aetiology of personality disorder, particularly borderline personality disorder (BPD). Our primary objective was to summarise the evidence on the relationship between parenting and personality disorder, assisting clinical decision-makers to translate this research into clinical policy and practice.
methodsWe conducted an overview of systematic reviews that assessed individuals with personality disorder pathology for experiences of maladaptive parenting, compared to psychiatric or healthy comparisons/controls, and the impact on psychopathological and relational outcomes. Systematic literature searches were conducted in Scopus, Web of Science, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, and by hand in August 2018. Methodological quality was assessed using the CASP systematic review checklist, and results were qualitatively synthesised. A pre-determined protocol was registered in Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (PROSPERO 2019:CRD42018096177).
resultsOf the 312 identified records, 293 abstracts were screened, 36 full-text articles were retrieved and eight systematic reviews met pre-determined criteria for qualitative synthesises. The majority of studies reported outcomes related to BPD (n = 7), and study design, methodology and quality varied. Within the eight systematic reviews there were 211 primary studies, of which 140 (66.35%) met eligibility criteria for inclusion in this overview. Eligible primary studies reported on 121,895 adult, child/adolescent and parent-offspring participants, with most studies focused on borderline personality pathology (n = 100, 71.43%). Study design and methodology also varied for these studies. Overall, five systematic reviews overwhelming found that maladaptive parenting was a psychosocial risk factor for the development of borderline personality pathology, and three studies found that borderline personality pathology was associated with maladaptive parenting, and negative offspring and parenting-offspring outcomes.
conclusionsIn light of these findings, we recommend greater emphasis on parenting in clinical practice and the development of parenting interventions for individuals with personality disorder. However, our understanding is limited by the heterogeneity and varying quality of the evidence, and as such, future research utilising more rigorous research methodology is needed.
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