Research shows that parental personality pathology is associated with borderline personality disorder features and internalizing/externalizing symptoms in offspring. However, studies have been limited by DSM-IV-based assessments of parental personality pathology. The authors leveraged evidence that interpersonal problems described by the Interpersonal Circumplex align with Criterion A of the DSM-5 Alternative Model for Personality Disorders and therefore used a measure of interpersonal problems to capture parental personality pathology. The authors hypothesized that parental interpersonal problems would be associated with a latent variable of borderline features in adolescent offspring. They also examined whether this relation with offspring borderline features existed above and beyond relations with offspring internalizing/externalizing symptoms, age, and gender. The sample included 524 inpatient adolescents (Mage = 15.31, 62.4% female) and their parents (80.5% female). Parental interpersonal problems demonstrated unique relationships with adolescent borderline features and externalizing symptoms, but not internalizing symptoms. Implications of the results, limitations, and future directions are discussed.

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父母的人际关系问题和青少年边缘型人格障碍特征。

研究表明，父母的人格病理与后代的边缘人格障碍特征和内化/外化症状有关。然而，研究受到基于 DSM-IV 的父母人格病理学评估的限制。作者利用证据表明，人际循环所描述的人际关系问题与 DSM-5 人格障碍替代模型的标准 A 一致，因此使用了人际关系问题的衡量标准来捕捉父母的人格病理。作者假设父母的人际关系问题与青春期后代边缘特征的潜在变量有关。他们还研究了这种与后代边缘特征的关系是否存在于与后代内化/外化症状的关系之上，年龄和性别。样本包括 524 名住院青少年（法师 = 15.31，62.4% 女性）及其父母（80.5% 女性）。父母的人际关系问题与青少年边缘特征和外化症状表现出独特的关系，但与内化症状无关。讨论了结果的影响、局限性和未来的方向。