Zhong Run,Yang Congwen,Liu Junhong,Sun Maoqian,Weng Yujia,Wen Jian,Huang Guoping,Relationship between negative parenting styles and borderline personality features of middle school students: the moderating effect of emotional regulation strategies[J].SICHUAN MENTAL HEALTH,2026,39(1):76-82
Relationship between negative parenting styles and borderline personality features of middle school students: the moderating effect of emotional regulation strategies
DOI:10.11886/scjsws20250606002
English keywords:Borderline personality features  Negative parenting styles  Emotional regulation strategies  Middle school students
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Zhong Run 1North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong 637000, China
2Sichuan Mental Health Center·The Third Hospital of Mianyang, Mianyang 621000, China 
621000
Yang Congwen 1North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong 637000, China
2Sichuan Mental Health Center·The Third Hospital of Mianyang, Mianyang 621000, China 
621000
Liu Junhong 1North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong 637000, China
2Sichuan Mental Health Center·The Third Hospital of Mianyang, Mianyang 621000, China 
621000
Sun Maoqian 1North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong 637000, China
2Sichuan Mental Health Center·The Third Hospital of Mianyang, Mianyang 621000, China 
621000
Weng Yujia 1North Sichuan Medical College, Nanchong 637000, China
2Sichuan Mental Health Center·The Third Hospital of Mianyang, Mianyang 621000, China 
621000
Wen Jian 3Nanning Tenth People's Hospital, Nanning 530000, China 530000
Huang Guoping* 2Sichuan Mental Health Center·The Third Hospital of Mianyang, Mianyang 621000, China 621000
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      Background The middle school stage represents a crucial period for the development of borderline personality features. Negative parenting styles and emotional regulation strategies are associated with the formation of borderline personality features. However, the moderating role of emotional regulation strategies between negative parenting styles and borderline personality features among middle school students remains unclear.Objective To explore the moderating influence of emotional regulation strategies in the relationship between negative parenting styles and borderline personality features among middle school students, and to provide references for the intervention of borderline personality features.Methods In October 2023, a total of 5 965 middle school students from three middle schools in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region were selected by cluster sampling, and assessed by the Borderline Personality Features Scale for Children (BPFS-C), the Egna Minnen Barndoms Uppfostran (EMBU), and the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire-Chinese Revised Version (ERQ-CRV). Pearson correlation analysis was used to test the correlation between the scores of each scale, and the model 1 of the Process macro program was used to conduct the moderating effect test.Results A total of 5 572 middle school students (93.41%) completed this study, and 1 388 of them (24.91%) were identified as having high borderline personality features. The BPFS-C score of middle school students was positively correlated with the score of the negative parenting style dimension of EMBU (r=0.367, P<0.01), negatively correlated with the score of the cognitive reappraisal dimension of ERQ-CRV (r=-0.168, P<0.01), and positively correlated with the score of the expression inhibition dimension of ERQ-CRV (r=0.344, P<0.01). Cognitive reappraisal played a negative moderating effect between negative parenting styles and borderline personality features (β=-0.072, 95% CI: -0.104–-0.041, P<0.01), while expressive suppression played a positive moderating effect (β=0.076, 95% CI: 0.055–0.097, P<0.01).Conclusion Cognitive reappraisal strategy may help mitigate the negative influence of negative parenting styles on middle school students' borderline personality features, while expressive suppression may exacerbate the harm of negative parenting styles to the borderline personality features of middle school students.
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