Personality traits or emotional dysregulation: a multiple mediation analyses of adolescent depression.

Background: In a similar way to depression, the development of borderline personality traits seems closely linked to the experience of Stressful Life Events (SLEs). This study examined the extent to which emotion regulation and personality traits simultaneously mediate and significantly attenuate the direct path between SLEs and depressive symptoms.

Method: Parallel and serial multiple mediation models were employed to analyze a sample of 196 adolescents assessed twice over a 12-month period.

Psychometric Properties and Measurement Invariance of the Borderline Personality Features Scale for Children (BPFSC-11).

We examined the psychometric properties of the Borderline Personality Features Scale for Children (BPFSC-11) in a sample of = 235 adolescents. This involved an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). We meticulously assessed internal consistency, convergent, and concurrent validity by analyzing the relationship between BPFSC-11 scores and measurements of emotional dysregulation, self-efficacy, resilience, depression, anxiety sensitivity, and social anxiety.