The Relationship between Childhood Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Adulthood Borderline Personality Disorder

AuthorAli Mashhadien
Authoresmail soltanien
AuthorEbrahim Akbarien
Authorazam farmanien
Issued Date2013-02-28en
AbstractBackground : Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a risk factor for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) during adulthood. Studying the relationship between childhood ADHD disorder symptoms and depression and borderline personality disorder symptoms among students was the main aim of this study.Materials and Methods : A total of 291 students, who were studying in Shiraz and Tabriz universities inThe academic year of 2010-2011, were selected from three groups of Humanities, Basic Sciences, and Technical-Engineering Sciences using simple sampling method. They participated in the study through completing Wender Utah Rating Scale (WURS), Borderline Personality Scale (STB) and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II).  Pearsons correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis were used to analyze the data.Results : The results showed that there is a significant positive relationship between childhood ADHD and borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) in adulthood and childhood ADHD is able to predict BPD in adulthood (pen
DOIhttps://doi.org/en
URIhttps://brieflands.com/journals/zjrms/articles/93112en
KeywordAttention deficit/hyperactivityen
Keyworddisorder(ADHD)en
KeywordBorderline personalityen
Keyworddisorder(BPD)en
KeywordDepressionen
PublisherBrieflandsen
TitleThe Relationship between Childhood Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Adulthood Borderline Personality Disorderen
TypeResearch Articleen

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