Preliminary data on the relationship between anxiety sensitivity and borderline personality disorder: The role of experiential avoidance

Abstract The present study analyzes the relationship between maladaptive beliefs, personality traits, and Borderline Personality Disorder symptoms by focusing in the mediating role of beliefs in the prediction between personality and psychiatric disorders. The sample consisted of 823 adults aged between 18 and 39 years (M = 24.09, SD = 4.71), who answered a questionnaire of symptoms and beliefs for Borderline Personality Disorder and Big Five Personality Inventory. The predictive model that fit better to the data indicates Neuroticism and Conscientiousness as predictors of Borderline Personality Disorder symptoms, mediated by maladaptive belief patterns. In this sense, it is possible to conclude that both personality traits and maladaptive beliefs are important for the understanding of Borderline Personality Disorder. The theoretical implications of this result and the limitations of the study are discussed.

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Faculty Opinions recommendation of An examination of the relationship between childhood emotional abuse and borderline personality disorder features: the role of difficulties with emotion regulation.

Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature ◽

10.3410/f.727015348.793525739 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Sheila Crowell

Keyword(s):

Emotion Regulation ◽

Borderline Personality Disorder ◽

Personality Disorder ◽

Emotional Abuse ◽

Borderline Personality ◽

Childhood Emotional Abuse ◽

The Relationship

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Borderline Personality Disorder Features and Sensitivity to Injustice

Journal of Personality Disorders ◽

10.1521/pedi_2017_31_292 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 32 (2) ◽

pp. 192-206 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Stefanie Lis ◽

Anna Schaedler ◽

Lisa Liebke ◽

Sophie Hauschild ◽

Janine Thome ◽

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Keyword(s):

Borderline Personality Disorder ◽

Personality Disorder ◽

Aggressive Behavior ◽

Online Survey ◽

Borderline Personality ◽

Close Link ◽

Justice Sensitivity ◽

Interpersonal Dysfunction ◽

The Relationship

Hypersensitivity to injustice has been proposed to contribute to interpersonal dysfunction in borderline personality disorder (BPD). We investigated whether BPD features are related to sensitivity to injustice and whether justice sensitivity mediates the relationship between BPD features and aggressive behavior. In an online survey, subjects reported justice sensitivity from the perspective of a victim, an observer, a beneficiary, and a perpetrator as well as BPD features and their own aggressive behavior. Justice sensitivity was higher in participants with a clinically relevant degree of BPD features when they evaluated injustice from the perspective of a victim or an observer. Victim sensitivity partially mediated the relationship between BPD features and the frequency of aggressive behavior. The present study provides first data on the important role of sensitivity to injustice in those with marked BPD features. Particularly, victim sensitivity with its close link to angry reactions may contribute to interpersonal problems in BPD.

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