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Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychopathol. 2009 Fall;21(4):1311–1334. doi: 10.1017/S0954579409990174

Table 2.

Negative binomial regressions predicting adult borderline personality symptoms (28 years) from early endogenous and environmental experience

Independent Variables	B	SE	e ^b	SE	z (p Value)

I. Prediction From Endogenous Characteristics

Infant motor maturity (7–10 days)	−0.04	0.41	0.96	.40	−0.10
Infant muscle tone/tension (3 months)	−0.54	0.39	0.58	.23	−1.38
Infant activity (6 months)	−0.96	0.92	0.38	.35	−1.04
Emotionality (30 months) χ² (4) = 7.37^***	0.13	0.08	1.14	.09	1.62

II. Prediction From Early Environmental Experience

Attachment disorganization (12–18 months)	0.05	0.10	1.06	.11	0.54
Maternal hostility (42 months)	0.23	0.09	1.26	.11	2.64^**
Maternal boundary dissolution (42 months)	0.10	0.12	1.11	.13	0.85
Maternal life stress (3–42 months) χ² (4) = 18.47^***	0.51	0.26	1.66	.43	1.96^*

p < .05.

^**

p < .01.

^***

p < .001.