Is it a bad practice to pass "this" as parameter inside its own constructor?

Question

I have this BdlTabItem which receives a parameter of type DockableUserControl and would like to know if is it a bad practice to create a circular reference between the two by using uc.TabItem = this and new BdlDockableWindow(this) before the constructor finishes.

I know this behavior can be considered really bad with unmanaged native code (C++). So, even though I didn't have any warnings or errors, I ask here if I should do this or not.

public BdlTabItem(BdlTabControl parent, DockableUserControl uc, string title)
    {
        TabControlParent = parent;
        UserControl = uc;
        WindowParent = new BdlDockableWindow(this);

        this.Content = UserControl;

        UserControl.TabItem = this;
    }

Answer 1

This is acceptable, but raises questions. Why is the tab item instantiating a new WindowParent but the parent tab control doesn't have a reference to it? Or why isn't the window parent a property on the user control being passed in? Seems like the behavior should be elsewhere.