Although we can not fully understand her development from infancy and do not know what signs she gave growing up under her overpowering, belittling father, we can make a good assessment of her stages from her personality in the movie. Throughout her adolescence she appears to be striving for attention from her father. The scene where she is on the porch with Bull and wraps her arms around his legs telling him that she's pregnant and is going to run off with her boyfriend. All of this is untrue and her father knows it and get annoyed. Here she is striving for attention that she doesn't get from him both as an infant and as a young woman.
Bad attention is better than no attention.
Ben also escorts her to prom, which shows a great trust and love between them. But with her father she is always dramatizing to get his attention and to irritate him. As a toddler she didn't build her self-confidence, and as a child she never felt like she was adequate because she never met up to her father's expectations.