1. Objectifs

Intentions :
«The main goal of this study was to investigate links between detrimental parenting (i.e., controlling, rejecting and chaotic practices) and the presence of BPD [borderline personality disorder] features within a non-clinical sample of adolescents. […] Our supplemental goal was to explore how each of these detrimental parenting practices relate to each BPD dimension.» (p. 2)

Questions/Hypothèses :
«We expected all measured detrimental parenting practices, and especially controlling and rejecting practices, to be associated with higher global BPD scores.» (p. 2)

2. Méthode

Échantillon/Matériau :
«Participants were 270 French-speaking adolescents (58.5% girls, 40.7% boys, 0.7% not specified) from the Montreal metropolitan area. They were students in grades 9 to 11, mainly recruited through two private high schools, after e-mail or in-person presentations of the study, as well as by word of mouth from previous participants to their friends and peers (5.9% of the sample). […] Adolescents were aged between 14 and 19 years old […] and were well distributed across the three grade levels […] » (p. 3)

Instruments :
Questionnaires

Type de traitement des données :
Analyse statistique

3. Résumé

«In our sample, the extent to which adolescents perceived their parents to be controlling, rejecting and chaotic was associated with global BPD, which is consistent with previous research findings on the associations between individual detrimental parenting practices and BPD. Our study also adds to previous research by uncovering the unique and additive contribution of each of the three detrimental parenting dimensions, over and above the BPD variance explained by gender. In addition, our results suggest that none of the measured parenting practices are less important than the others, as the magnitude of all path coefficients was similar […].» (p. 5-7)