Randomized trial examines the mediating role of borderline personality features in adolescent dissociation, suggesting targeted interventions are needed.
Key Points
This study aims to investigate how borderline personality features mediate the relationship between childhood emotional abuse and dissociation in adolescents.
Sample of 111 adolescents aged 13 to 20 completed standardized questionnaires on emotional abuse, borderline features, and dissociation.
Used the Childhood Experiences of Care and Abuse Questionnaire, Borderline Personality Features Scale for Children, and Adolescent Dissociative Experiences Scale.
Analyzed the mediation effect of borderline personality features on dissociative symptoms.
Borderline personality features fully mediated the association between childhood emotional abuse and dissociation.
The mediation accounted for 37% of the variance in dissociative symptoms.
Affective instability and identity problems were identified as key drivers of the indirect association.