Rink
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Completed research project
| Title / Titel | The aetiological role of early parent-child interactions in the development of interpersonal problems and personality disorders: A Retrospective Interview-Study | ||||||
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| Summary / Zusammenfassung | According to an aetiological model (Rink, 2002) emotional instability and demandingness (Ellis, 1994) are seen as common features of severe personality disorders (narcisstic, histrionic, antisocial, borderline) and of less severe interpersonal problems. It is hypothesized that high emotional reactivity and demandingness are a consequence of the lasting experience of specific dysfunktional parent-child interactions which can be categorized as maladaptive conflict management, high permissivity (little educational rules) and overinvolvement (high rates of unconditional child-related attention, inadequate (positive) evaluative responses, overavoidance/protection of unfavourable evaluative responses). Maladaptive conflict-management may be shown as immediately giving in, inconsequence after a struggle and inconsistence over time. The main goal of the study is to collect concrete retrospective reports of parent-child interaction episodes which have correlative (predictive) significance to measures of current pathology (interpersonal problems / personality disorders). The recollected episodes also serve as material to generate prototypical illustrations of interaction styles of different pathogenic potential. For this purposes a thoroughly structured interview manual was constructed, which prompts parents to recollect and report detailed descriptions of early parent-child interactions covering a variety of topics, such as conflicts with child, parental conflicts, educational rules and behaviours, control, dominance typical activities of/with child, intended and actually given (judged) intensity of the relationship, uncommon behaviours / privileges of child, indicators of pleasant or unwanted dependency of the child, significant changes of attention or behaviours related to the child as well as any special incidents during childhood. To allow quantitative analyses of the interactional data parents are asked to estimate the frequency, intensity and the situational and age related adequacy of the interactions. A pilot study should yield preliminary evidence of the significance of the interaction types, which will be followed by a representative study. | ||||||
| Keywords / Suchbegriffe | Borderline-Personality-Disorder, Emotional Instability, Aetiological Theory | ||||||
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| Duration of Project / Projektdauer | Jun 2001 to Jul 2004 |