The enduring impact of borderline personality pathology: Risk for threatening life events in later middle-age

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 447-457

  Gleason, Marci E J ^a   Powers, Abigail D ^b   Oltmanns, Thomas F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Borderline personality disorder; Depression; Life events; Neuroticism; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AVOIDANT PERSONALITY DISORDER; BORDERLINE STATE; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DSM-IV; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY DISORDER; HUMAN; INCOME; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MARRIAGE; NARCISSISM; NEUROSIS; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PARANOID PERSONALITY DISORDER; PATHOLOGY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHIZOIDISM; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; SELF REPORT; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FOLLOW UP; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR;

BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROTIC DISORDERS; RISK FACTORS; SELF REPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84864755132     PISSN: 0021843X     EISSN: 19391846     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0025564     Document Type: Article

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