Influence of Parental Rejection on Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a mental disorder that makes individual’s emotion, behavior and relationship unpredictable. In personality formation and development parenting experiences, particularly warmth, rejection, and overprotection have an important impact. The objective of this study was to identify the possible relationship between parental rejection and BPD of adults in the context of Bangladesh. A total 40 adults of BPD were selected from outpatient department of Psychiatry of four hospitals and one clinic of Bangladesh by purposive sampling technique. The researcher applied the Structured Clinical Interview for Diagnosis-II (SCID-II) for BPD. A demographic questionnaire had also given to the participants. Then Adult version of Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionnaire for Father and Mother were applied on BPD patients with their written consent. The researcher applied descriptive and correlation statistics to analyze the data using standard statistical parameters. Result revealed that 87.5% of participants faced maternal rejection and 66.5% of participants faced paternal rejection. Result also showed that 67.5% participants facedrejection from both parents and 32.5% faced rejection from at least one parent. It was found that, maternal (r = .304, p = .028) and paternal (r = .210, p = .044) rejection were positively correlated with BPD. The hostility of mother was also significantly correlated with BPD (r =0.489, p = .001). R2 = .239 indicated 23.9% of the variance in BPD severity can be explained by mother’s hostility [F (1, 38) = 11.960; p < .001]. Using of these findings, mental health service providers might aware the parents about the risk factors of BPD that could contribute as a preventive measure.