1. Objectifs

Intentions :
« In this report, we will present the retrospective perceptions of the members of families in which a daughter is diagnosed with bordeline personality disorder (BPD) or with restricting anorexia nervosa (AN), as compared with the reports of members of families in which nobody has a history of psychiatric diagnosis. » (p. 507)

2. Méthode

Échantillon/Matériau :
Parents (mean age 53 yrs) and daughters (aged 16-40 yrs) in 21 families of women with borderline personality disorder (BPD), 23 women with restricting anorexia nervosa (AN), and 25 women without clinical histories (NC).

Instruments :
- Symptom Checklist-90-R (Derogatis, 1977);
- Borderline Syndrome Index (Conte, Plutchik, Karasu & Jerrett, 1980);
- Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI) (Parker, Tupling & Brown, 1979);
- Self-Report Family Inventory of family relationships (Beavers, Hampson & Hulgus, 1990).
Type de traitement des données :
Analyse statistique

3. Résumé

« Clinicians and reseachers who are concerned with couple or family therapy are confronted with the fact that each member of the same family may have a different vision of the family fonctionning. Although the importance of evaluating the perceptions of several family members is now well recognized, reseachers must still define the most relevant and significant method of interperting findings that represent multiple perpectives and clinicians are still faced with selecting the most helpful method of utilizing these perspectives during a family evaluation or intervention (Bartle-Haring & Gavazzi, 1996; Olson, McCubbin, Barnes, Larsen, Muxen & Wilson, 1983). [...] For the present study , parents and daughters in 21 families of women with borderline personality disorder (BPD), 23 women with restricting anorexia nervosa (AN), and 25 women without clinical histories (NC) responded to the Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI) and the Beavers Self-Report Family Inventory (SFI). On the PBI, BPD daughter’s perceptions differed from both their parents ’whereas AN daughter’s perceptions differed from their mothers’. On the SFI, both groups reported less family health than their parents. On both instruments, nonclinical daughter’s perceptions were congruent with the parents’. These findings have implications for researchers and therapists for integrating and utilizing the varying perceptions of family members. » (pp. 505-506)