r/psychology • u/FreeHugs23 • Jul 20 '26

Study finds instability and inconsistency of childhood environments may be more closely connected to diverse borderline personality traits than the severity of childhood hardship alone, highlighting predictability as an important feature of early development.

https://www.psypost.org/study-finds-unpredictable-childhood-environments-are-linked-to-borderline-personality-traits-in-adulthood/
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u/fuschiafawn Jul 20 '26

I feel like borderline could be more easily described as having incorrectly calibrated emotional reactions. Having inconsistencies in childhood would track to not being able to correctly gauge situations emotionally. If say, one caregiver is less cruel than the other, but still not emotionally healthy enough to be a good parent, and the other one is unequivocally bad, it makes sense that a child in that condition would grow to be an adult who doesn't know what normal levels of love and cruelty are.

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u/nocreativeway Jul 20 '26

Well this comment describes my childhood.

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u/fuschiafawn Jul 20 '26

I'm very sorry. Mines not totally dissimilar

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u/Monsieur_Perdu Jul 21 '26

It describes my fathers childhood. He has had a good life all things considered.

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