Code
3E005015
Duration
01 October 2015 → 30 September 2018
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Social sciences
- Applied psychology
- Biological and physiological psychology
- Clinical and counselling psychology
- Developmental psychology and ageing
- General psychology
- Other psychology and cognitive sciences
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Medical and health sciences
- Psychiatry and psychotherapy
- Psychiatry and psychotherapy
- Nursing
- Other paramedical sciences
- Psychiatry and psychotherapy
Keywords
experience sampling
adolescent turmoil
adolescents
borderline personality disorder
twins
genetics
environment
Project description
The proposal will use a longitudinal twin-and sibling design to unravel genetic versus environmental underlying factors of borderline personality pathology (BPD) within a spectrum framework. Moreover, the use of an experience sampling design in population and BPD-referred adolescents will enable us to better differentiate between BPD symptomatology and normative adolescent turmoil, with special attention to situational triggers of these fluctuations.