Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
University of Houston, Houston, USA.
Psychol Med. 2021 Oct;51(14):2388-2398. doi: 10.1017/S0033291720000987. Epub 2020 Apr 23.
Recent research has emphasized the importance of within-person transactions between situational perceptions and borderline symptomatology. The current study extends current evidence by evaluating a broad range of situational perceptions and their transactions with borderline symptomatology across both private and professional contexts. Additionally, it explores whether early experiences of parental harsh punishment and emotional support during childhood, two well-established etiological factors in developmental theories of borderline symptomatology, influence the effect of daily situation perception in adulthood on borderline symptom presentation.
N = 131 young adults (Mage = 20.97, s.d.age = 1.64) completed end-of-day diaries of their borderline symptoms and perceptions of the home and school or work environment for 14 days. During their mid-childhood, reports of maternal strategies of harsh punishment and emotional support were collected.
Findings revealed that on the same day, borderline symptoms were associated with more negative and stressful, and less positive perceptions of both the private and professional context. Additionally, borderline symptoms predicted more negative and stressful perceptions of school/work on subsequent days. Finally, while early harsh punishment predicted overall increases in daily borderline symptoms 10 years later, emotionally supportive parenting in childhood predicted decreases in borderline symptom expression in less positive and more stressful contexts.
The current study points to the importance of managing BPD symptoms to reduce subsequent negative perceptions of the environment, and also indicates the relevance of exploring adult person-situation processes based on early parenting experiences.
最近的研究强调了个体在情境感知和边缘症状之间的内在联系的重要性。本研究通过评估广泛的情境感知及其在私人和专业环境中与边缘症状的相互作用，扩展了现有证据。此外，它还探讨了童年时期父母严厉惩罚和情感支持的早期经历——这两个是边缘症状发展理论中的既定病因因素——是否会影响成年后日常生活情境感知对边缘症状表现的影响。
N=131 名年轻成年人（平均年龄=20.97，标准差=1.64）在 14 天内完成了他们的边缘症状和对家庭及学校或工作环境的感知的日常记录。在他们的童年中期，收集了母亲严厉惩罚和情感支持策略的报告。
研究结果表明，在同一天，边缘症状与对私人和专业环境的更负面、更有压力和更少积极的感知有关。此外，边缘症状预测了随后几天对学校/工作的更负面和更有压力的感知。最后，虽然早期的严厉惩罚预测了 10 年后日常边缘症状的总体增加，但童年时期情感支持的养育方式预测了在不那么积极和压力更大的环境中边缘症状表达的减少。
本研究指出了管理边缘型人格障碍症状以减少随后对环境的负面感知的重要性，并表明了基于早期养育经验探索成人情境过程的相关性。
