Which factors are MOST implicated in the etiology of borderline personality disorder (BPD)?
a. a chaotic and violent family environment
b. childhood isolation and understimulation
c. frustrating life events and failures
d. hereditary and intermarriage patterns
A
Although the precise cause of BPD remains unknown, it is generally assumed that BPD is an acquired condition deriving from the experience of growing up in a chaotic and often violent family.
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