Although children of mothers who have elevated borderline personality disorder (BPD) features are a high-risk group, there remains little research examining developmental mechanisms that place these offspring at risk for emerging psychopathology. The current study included 68 mother-pre-schooler dyads, in which mothers with elevated BPD features were oversampled. Preschoolers (aged 3 and 4 years) completed a battery of executive functioning (EF) and theory of mind (ToM) measures. Accounting for several covariates (family income, maternal depression, child age, and child cognitive ability), maternal BPD features were associated with preschoolers' poorer EF and, although not associated with the overall ToM measure, were associated with affect perspective taking, a component of ToM.

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产妇边界人格障碍特征与学龄前儿童执行功能和心理理论的关系。

尽管边缘性人格障碍（BPD）特征较高的母亲的孩子是高危人群，但很少有研究研究将这些后代置于新兴心理病理风险中的发育机制。当前的研究包括68个学龄前母亲双胞胎，其中BPD特征升高的母亲被过度采样。学龄前儿童（3岁和4岁）完成了一系列的执行功能（EF）和心理理论（ToM）措施。考虑到几个协变量（家庭收入，母亲抑郁，儿童年龄和儿童认知能力），母亲的BPD特征与学龄前儿童的EF较差有关，尽管与总体ToM指标无关，但与影响观点的接受有关。 ToM。