scholarly journals Is Attentional Bias To Idiosyncratic Stimuli Related To Borderline Symptomatology?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Martins ◽  
Laura Ferreira ◽  
Catarina Fernandes ◽  
Luís Faísca
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Therapeutic Interventions ◽  
Emotional Stimuli ◽  
Identification Task ◽  
Attentional Processes ◽  
Emotional Words ◽  
Borderline Disorder

Abstract Background: In borderline personality disorder, attentional bias to emotional stimuli may be a fundamental component in their origin and maintenance. However, the authors seem divided between the hypothesis of hypervigilance for negative stimuli and the hypothesis of over-reactivity against any type of stimuli. Aims: We aimed to observe the association between borderline symptoms and the allocation of attention to neutral, idiosyncratic negative and general negative emotional words. Method: We tested thirty-five portuguese university students, aged between 18 and 40 years old with an Emotional Stroop paradigm. Results: Our results suggest that a higher score of borderline symptoms are associated with a greater interference of idiosyncratic negative words in the colour identification task. Conclusions: These results support the hypervigilance hypotheses for idiosyncratic borderline stimuli. In other words, this study suggested that borderline sympotms is linked to an inability to disengage attention from negative words typically of borderline disorder. Based on these findings, mood-dependent therapeutic interventions focusing on attentional processes may represent a useful contribute to established therapies in patients with BPD.

scholarly journals Attentional Bias for Emotional Stimuli in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Meta-Analysis

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 383-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Kaiser ◽  
Gitta A. Jacob ◽  
Gregor Domes ◽  
Arnoud Arntz
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Emotional Stimuli

Emotion-Oriented Coping Style Predicts Self-Harm in Response to Acute Psychiatric Hospitalization

Crisis ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Jacqueline M. Frei ◽  
Vladimir Sazhin ◽  
Melissa Fick ◽  
Keong Yap
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitalization ◽  
Coping Styles ◽  
Psychiatric Inpatients ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Therapeutic Interventions ◽  
Coping Behaviors ◽  
Self Harm

Abstract. Psychiatric hospitalization can cause significant distress for patients. Research has shown that to cope with the stress, patients sometimes resort to self-harm. Given the paucity of research on self-harm among psychiatric inpatients, a better understanding of transdiagnostic processes as predictors of self-harm during psychiatric hospitalization is needed. The current study examined whether coping styles predicted self-harm after controlling for commonly associated factors, such as age, gender, and borderline personality disorder. Participants were 72 patients (mean age = 39.32 years, SD = 12.29, 64% male) admitted for inpatient treatment at a public psychiatric hospital in Sydney, Australia. Participants completed self-report measures of coping styles and ward-specific coping behaviors, including self-harm, in relation to coping with the stress of acute hospitalization. Results showed that younger age, diagnosis of borderline personality disorder, and higher emotion-oriented coping were associated with self-harm. After controlling for age and borderline personality disorder, higher levels of emotion-oriented coping were found to be a significant predictor of self-harm. Findings were partially consistent with hypotheses; emotion-oriented but not avoidance-oriented coping significantly predicted self-harm. This finding may help to identify and provide psychiatric inpatients who are at risk of self-harm with appropriate therapeutic interventions.

Rumination in Borderline Personality Disorder: Meta-Analysis

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mara J. Richman ◽  
Zsolt Unoka ◽  
Robert Dudas ◽  
Zsolt Demetrovics
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Emotion Dysregulation ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Therapeutic Interventions ◽  
Sample Type ◽  
Moderator Variables ◽  
Analytic Review ◽  
Self Harm

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by deficits in emotion regulation and affective liability. Of this domain, ruminative behaviors have been considered a core feature of emotion dysregulation difficulties. Despite this, inconsistencies have existed in the literature regarding which rumination type is most prominent in those with BPD symptoms. Moreover, no meta-analytic review has been performed to date on rumination in BPD. Taking this into consideration, a meta-analysis was performed to assess how BPD symptoms correlate with rumination, while also considering clinical moderator variables (i.e., BPD symptom domain, co-morbidities, GAF score) and demographic moderator variables (i.e., age, gender, sample type, and education level). Analysis of correlation across rumination domains for the entire sample revealed a medium overall correlation between BPD symptoms and rumination. When assessing types of rumination, the largest correlation was among pain rumination followed by anger, depressive, and anxious rumination. Among BPD symptom domain, affective instability had the strongest correlation with increased rumination, followed by unstable relationships, identity disturbance, and self-harm/ impulsivity, respectively. Demographic variables showed no significance. Clinical implications are considered and further therapeutic interventions are discussed in the context of rumination.

scholarly journals The neurodevelopmental trajectory of Borderline Personality Disorder: a review

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siobhan R Edinboro ◽  
Tobias Nolte ◽  
Iris Vilares
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Brain Function ◽  
Emotion Dysregulation ◽  
Grey Matter ◽  
Neural Correlates ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Therapeutic Interventions ◽  
Adult Onset ◽  
Neurodevelopmental Model

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a complex psychological condition characterised by affective instability, cognitive impairment, problematic behaviours and social dysfunction. Due to the variability in symptomatic profiles, efforts have recently been directed towards comprehending the disorder from a neurological standpoint within the aforementioned domains. Although adolescent-onset BPD is now reliably diagnosed as the adult-onset variant, a limited number of studies address the neural correlates of first presentation BPD. Moreover, research investigating the outcomes of therapeutic interventions on brain function and morphology is scarce. Preliminary findings consistently cite the involvement of grey matter deficiencies of the orbitofrontal cortex, hippocampus and amygdala in the neuropathology of BPD. Additionally, frontolimbic white matter deficits are thought to be implicated. Functionally, over-activity in limbic regions such as the cingulate cortices and amygdala are believed to partially account for emotion dysregulation, though the neural correlates of cognitive, social and behavioural impairments are relatively poorly understood. The present review will endeavour to evaluate the existing neurobiological evidence for BPD in adolescence as well as adulthood. Finally, a rudimentary neurodevelopmental model of BPD will be proposed.

scholarly journals PSYCHOLOGICAL FEATURES OF PEOPLE WITH BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDERS

2018 ◽  
pp. 47-51
Author(s):  
V. Morozova
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Borderline Personality Disorders ◽  
Borderline Disorder ◽  
High Level ◽  
Psychological Features ◽  
The Relationship

The article presents the results of an empirical study of the psychological features of people with signs of borderline personality disorder. The study involved 40 people with signs of borderline personality disorder aged 14-56 years. According to the purpose of the study, the following tasks have been set: To investigate personality with borderline disorder; Identify and evaluate the neurotic states of a person with a borderline personality disorder; Conduct correlation analysis to investigate trends in the relationship between the indicator of the number of signs of borderline disorder and personal characteristics. The following research methods were used: 5PFQ Big Five technique (R. McCray, P. Costa), Clinical questionnaire for the detection and evaluation of neurotic conditions (KK Yakhin, DM Mendelevich) and Methods for diagnosing borderline personality disorder (TY Lasovskaya, CP Korolenko, SV Yaechnikov). The data obtained were subjected to a mathematical and statistical analysis procedure using the SPSS Statistic program. It is proved that emotional lability (instability of emotions), impulsiveness and self-harming behavior are important diagnostic criteria of a borderline personality disorder. High level of manifestation of signs of borderline personality disorder is accompanied by such mental states of disadaptation as neurotic depression, asthenia, tension and anxiety.

scholarly journals Interpersonal Functioning in Borderline Personality Disorder Traits: A Social Media Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinnie Ooi ◽  
John Michael ◽  
Sakari Lemola ◽  
Stephen Butterfill ◽  
Cynthia S. Q. Siew ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Therapeutic Interventions ◽  
Clinical Population ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Interpersonal Difficulties ◽  
Using Data

AbstractThis is the first study to demonstrate interpersonal difficulties associated with borderline personality disorder (BPD) features in the domain of social media. Using crowdsourcing, we presented participants with a battery of questions about their recent social media use, and then assessed their BPD features using the short form of the Five-Factor Borderline Inventory. The results revealed that individuals with higher BPD trait scores reported posting more often on social media, as well as a higher incidence of experiencing regret after posting on social media, and of deleting or editing their posts. They also report a higher degree of importance of social media in their social behavior and daily routines. These results highlight the pervasiveness of interpersonal difficulties associated with BPD features even in the non-clinical population, and demonstrate that these difficulties are also observable in social media behavior. Our findings may provide a starting point for research using data from social media to illuminate the cognitive and emotional processes underpinning the interpersonal difficulties associated with BPD features, and to inform and assess therapeutic interventions.

Assessment of borderline personality disorder: considering a diagnostic strategy

2002 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. K. W. Schotte
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Biological Psychiatry ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Therapeutic Interventions ◽  
Diagnostic Strategy ◽  
Case Formulation ◽  
Clinical Context ◽  
Idiographic Approach ◽  
Dsm Iv

Background:Borderline personality disorder (BPD) represents a highly prevalent, severe and difficult-to-treat mental health problem.Objective:This paper considers methods, instruments and strategies for assessing BPD as described within the frame of the DSM-IV classification.Conclusions:Following the general diagnostic approach introduced by Van Praag in biological psychiatry, a two-tier diagnostic strategy for the descriptive diagnostic assessment of BPD is recommended. Axis one results in a DSM-IV Axis II categorical diagnosis, whereas axis two refers to a symptomatological, dimensional or functional approach, in which the psychological dysfunctions of the nosological syndrome are depicted. Moreover, in a clinical context a basic aim of the diagnostic evaluation is to obtain therapeutically valid information that leads to a constructive conceptual framework, to a case formulation in which therapeutic interventions are understood, selected and implemented. This framework should be based on a biopsychosocial theoretical model and its application in the clinical context involves feedback to the patient, in which the descriptive evaluation is integrated with etiological; and pathogenic elements using an idiographic approach. This therapeutically orientated diagnostic strategy is illustrated by the use of the ADP-IV (Assessment of DSM-IV personality disorders) questionnaire within a cognitive behavioral orientation.

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