Zielinski Melissa J, Borders Ashley, Giancola Peter R
Department of Psychological Science, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, 72701, USA.
Department of Psychology, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ, 08628, USA.
Personal Ment Health. 2015 Nov;9(4):288-97. doi: 10.1002/pmh.1306. Epub 2015 Aug 27.
This cross-sectional study investigated whether hostile rumination mediated the association between several indicators of a negative childhood environment (retrospectively reported child abuse and perceived parental care and overprotection) and borderline features. Community participants (N = 524) completed self-report measures in the laboratory. Results showed that adults exhibiting borderline features reported less parental care and more parental overprotection, as well as greater abuse. Additionally, hostile rumination statistically mediated the associations between all childhood environmental variables and borderline features, even controlling for depressive symptoms, alcohol use and impulsivity. Although cross-sectional data cannot test causal mediation, this pattern of results provides preliminary evidence that hostile rumination may partially account for the well-established connection between negative environments and borderline features. Future directions, including a discussion of longitudinal and experimental work that might help build on and strengthen the current findings, are explored.
这项横断面研究调查了敌对性沉思是否介导了童年负面环境的几个指标（回顾性报告的儿童虐待以及感知到的父母关爱和过度保护）与边缘型人格特征之间的关联。社区参与者（N = 524）在实验室完成了自我报告测量。结果显示，表现出边缘型人格特征的成年人报告的父母关爱较少、父母过度保护较多，且遭受的虐待也更多。此外，即使在控制了抑郁症状、酒精使用和冲动性之后，敌对性沉思在统计学上仍介导了所有童年环境变量与边缘型人格特征之间的关联。尽管横断面数据无法检验因果中介作用，但这种结果模式提供了初步证据，表明敌对性沉思可能部分解释了负面环境与边缘型人格特征之间已确立的联系。本文还探讨了未来的研究方向，包括对可能有助于在当前研究基础上进一步拓展和强化研究结果的纵向研究和实验性研究的讨论。
