Unique influences of adolescent antecedents on adult borderline personality disorder features.

There is a dearth of prospective information regarding adolescent precursors of borderline personality disorder (BPD). This study aimed to determine the unique associations between early maladaptive family functioning, parental psychiatric diagnoses, proband early onset psychiatric diagnosis, and BPD symptoms in adulthood using an existing longitudinal study. Participants were randomly selected from 9 high schools in western Oregon. A total of...