The impact of borderline personality pathology on mothers' responses to infant distress.

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 907-918 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth J. Kiel ◽  
Kim L. Gratz ◽  
Sarah Anne Moore ◽  
Robert D. Latzman ◽  
Matthew T. Tull
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Personality Pathology ◽  
Infant Distress ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Insomnia partially mediates the relationship between pathological personality traits and depression: a case-control study

PeerJ ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. e11061
Author(s):  
Fenglan Chen ◽  
Xiujin Lin ◽  
Yuli Pan ◽  
Xuan Zeng ◽  
Shengjie Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Personality Pathology ◽  
Antisocial Personality ◽  
Depression Severity ◽  
Chinese Sample ◽  
Personality Score ◽  
Severity Of Depression ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Aggressive Personality

Background and Objective Personality disorders are frequently associated with insomnia and depression, but little is known about the inter-relationships among these variables. Therefore, this study examined these inter-relationships and the possible mediating effect of insomnia on the association between specific personality pathologies and depression severity. Methods There were 138 study participants, including 69 individuals with depression and 69 healthy controls. The main variables were measured by the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale-24 (HAMD-24), Athens Sleep Insomnia Scale (AIS), and the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire (PDQ-4+). Multivariate linear regression and mediation analysis were conducted. Results With the exception of the antisocial personality score, all the PDQ-4+ scores and AIS scores were significantly higher in the depression group than in the healthy control group (p < 0.001). In the total sample, all personality pathology scores (p < 0.001), except the antisocial personality score, had significant positive correlations with the AIS scores and HAMD-24 scores, and the AIS scores and HAMD-24 scores were positively correlated (r = 0.620, p < 0.001). Regression analysis revealed that borderline personality, passive-aggressive personality, and insomnia positively predicted the severity of depression, after adjusting for sociodemographic covariates, and that insomnia partially mediated the associations of borderline personality and passive-aggressive personality with depression severity. Conclusions Borderline personality, passive-aggressive personality, and insomnia tend to increase the severity of depression, and the effect of borderline and passive-aggressive personality on depression severity may be partially mediated by insomnia. This is the first study to report these findings in a Chinese sample, and they may help researchers to understand the pathways from specific personality pathologies to the psychopathology of depression better, which should be useful for designing interventions to relieve depression severity, as the impact of specific personality pathology and insomnia should be considered.

Silence in the psychotherapy of adolescents with borderline personality pathology.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronan Zimmermann ◽  
Lukas Fürer ◽  
Nathalie Schenk ◽  
Julian Koenig ◽  
Volker Roth ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Personality Pathology

Beliefs about emotion shift dynamically alongside momentary affect

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Veilleux ◽  
Elise Warner ◽  
Danielle Baker ◽  
Kaitlyn Chamberlain
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Personality Pathology ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Assessment Study ◽  
Directed Action ◽  
Emotion Beliefs ◽  
Ecological Momentary ◽  
Momentary Assessment

This study examined if beliefs about emotion change across emotional contexts in daily life, and investigated whether people with prominent features of borderline personality pathology experience greater shifts in emotion beliefs during emotional states compared to people without borderline features. Undergraduate participants with (n = 49) and without borderline features (n = 50) completed a one week ecological momentary assessment study where 7x/day they provided ratings of affect, nine different beliefs about emotion and indicators of momentary self-efficacy. Results indicated a significant between-person element to emotion beliefs, supporting the notion of beliefs as relatively schematic. In addition, people with borderline features generally experienced greater instability of beliefs over time compared to people without borderline features. In addition, most of the beliefs about emotion shifted with either positive or negative affect. For many of the emotion beliefs, the relationships between affect and belief were moderated by borderline group. Finally, momentary beliefs about emotion also predicted momentary self-efficacy for tolerating distress and exerting willpower. Taken together, results confirm that beliefs about emotion can fluctuate in daily life and that there are implications for emotion beliefs for people who struggle with emotion regulation and impulsivity (i.e., people with features of borderline personality) as well as for self-efficacy in tolerating emotion and engaging in goal-directed action.

Positive Emotion in Borderline Personality Disorder

2019 ◽  
pp. 332-352
Author(s):  
Jill M. Hooley ◽  
Sara R. Masland
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Negative Mood ◽  
Severe Form ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Negative Emotionality ◽  
Personality Pathology ◽  
Emotional Experiences

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a severe form of personality pathology characterized by high levels of negative emotionality. Because negative emotions are so central to the clinical presentation of BPD, the issue of how people with this disorder process and experience positive emotional experiences is relatively unexplored. This chapter provides an overview of what is currently known about positive emotions and BPD. Although the literature is characterized by many inconsistencies, our review suggests that people with BPD do indeed experience positive emotions. However, their recall of positive emotional experiences appears to be reduced, perhaps because such experiences are more transient, less stable, and more likely to be quickly replaced by negative emotions. Problems with the identification and accurate differentiation of positive emotions may also play a role. Such difficulties may conspire to create a psychological world for people with BPD that is characterized by a focus on negative mood and negative emotional experiences. In addition to focusing on negative affect, we suggest that it might also be clinically beneficial to make problems with positive affect a specific clinical target.

The impact of breastfeeding on mothers’ attentional sensitivity towards infant distress

2011 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 200-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.M. Pearson ◽  
S.L. Lightman ◽  
J. Evans
Keyword(s):  
Infant Distress ◽  
The Impact
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