@article{ref1,
title="Adolescent alcohol use disorders predict adult borderline personality",
journal="Addictive behaviors",
year="2005",
author="Thatcher, Dawn L. and Cornelius, Jack R. and Clark, Duncan B.",
volume="30",
number="9",
pages="1709-1724",
abstract="BACKGROUND: This study investigated adolescent alcohol use disorders (AUDs) and other characteristics as predictors of adult borderline personality disorder (BPD) symptoms. METHODS: Adolescents with AUDs (n = 355) were recruited from clinical treatment sources and adolescents without AUDs (n = 169) were recruited from the community. During an adolescent assessment (age 16+/-1.3), childhood physical and/or sexual abuse history, AUDs and associated psychiatric disorders were measured via semi-structured interviews. Symptoms of BPD were measured in a young adult follow-up assessment (age 22+/-2.4). Latent class analysis was utilized to classify individuals into four categories based upon BPD symptom profiles. RESULTS: Multinomial regression models indicated that adolescent AUDs and other psychiatric disorders mediated the relationship between child physical and/or sexual abuse and adult BPD latent class. CONCLUSIONS: Results were consistent with a developmental conceptualization of BPD, with AUDs and other adolescent psychopathology antecedents representing developmentally relevant forms of dysregulation, and in their more severe forms culminating in borderline symptomatology.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0306-4603",
doi="10.1016/j.addbeh.2005.07.008",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2005.07.008"
}