@article{ref1,
title="Daily nonsuicidal self-injury thoughts in emerging adulthood: the relevance of pre-adolescent borderline traits",
journal="Development and psychopathology",
year="2023",
author="Franssens, R. and Kaurin, A. and De Clercq, B.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Longitudinal studies exploring the role of early personality vulnerabilities as risk factors for later NSSI dynamics are scarce. In this study, we assess how pre-adolescent borderline personality pathology (BPP) traits (assessed at mean age 12.78; SD(age) = 1.38, age range = 7.17-14.78) shape dynamic links between daily socio-emotional dysregulation and NSSI thoughts during emerging adulthood (M(age) = 20.96, SD(age) = 1.63). Mothers of 131 children completed questionnaires about their child's BPP traits in pre-adolescence. These children were re-assessed eight years later and were asked to complete a daily diary for 14 consecutive days. During these 14 days, behavioral and emotional dysregulation as well as NSSI thoughts were self-reported. Multilevel structural equation modeling was used (1) to examine dynamic links between socio-emotional dysregulation manifestations and NSSI thoughts in early adulthood, and (2) to explore the role of pre-adolescent BPP traits in moderating these early-adult dynamic associations. Our findings suggest that young adults who were described by their mothers as high on BPP traits (especially anxious and paranoid traits) during pre-adolescence, tended to respond more with NSSI thoughts when experiencing dysregulation or when perceiving others as rejecting in young adulthood. <br><br>RESULTS are discussed in terms of potential targets for indicated prevention of NSSI development.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0954-5794",
doi="10.1017/S0954579423001438",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0954579423001438"
}