Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies in Borderline Personality Disorder: Diagnostic Comparisons and Associations with Potentially Harmful Behaviors

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander R. Daros ◽  
Mylann A. Guevara ◽  
Amanda A. Uliaszek ◽  
Shelley F. McMain ◽  
Anthony C. Ruocco
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategies ◽  
Cognitive Emotion Regulation ◽  
Regulation Strategies

scholarly journals A laboratory examination of emotion regulation skill strengthening in borderline personality disorder

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca K. Metcalfe
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Skin Conductance Response ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategies ◽  
Laboratory Examination ◽  
Mindful Awareness ◽  
Multiple Trials ◽  
Regulation Strategies

The present study examined emotion regulation skill strengthening among individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) compared to healthy controls (HCs). Participants were instructed to repeatedly implement two emotion regulation strategies (i.e., distraction and mindful awareness) in response to BPD-relevant stimuli across multiple trials. Throughout the task, both self-reported negativity and positivity, and physiological indices of emotion (i.e., heart rate and skin conductance response) were collected. Results indicated that individuals with BPD and HCs displayed improvements in distraction compared to the control condition, but not in mindful awareness over time. When comparing the two emotion regulation strategies to each other, rate of skill strengthening varied by group. Specifically, HCs evidenced improvements in distraction. In contrast, individuals with BPD evidenced improvements in mindful awareness. These findings suggest that individuals with BPD do not show deficits in skill strengthening as compared to HCs.

scholarly journals A laboratory examination of emotion regulation skill strengthening in borderline personality disorder

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca K. Metcalfe
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Skin Conductance Response ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategies ◽  
Laboratory Examination ◽  
Mindful Awareness ◽  
Multiple Trials ◽  
Regulation Strategies

The present study examined emotion regulation skill strengthening among individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) compared to healthy controls (HCs). Participants were instructed to repeatedly implement two emotion regulation strategies (i.e., distraction and mindful awareness) in response to BPD-relevant stimuli across multiple trials. Throughout the task, both self-reported negativity and positivity, and physiological indices of emotion (i.e., heart rate and skin conductance response) were collected. Results indicated that individuals with BPD and HCs displayed improvements in distraction compared to the control condition, but not in mindful awareness over time. When comparing the two emotion regulation strategies to each other, rate of skill strengthening varied by group. Specifically, HCs evidenced improvements in distraction. In contrast, individuals with BPD evidenced improvements in mindful awareness. These findings suggest that individuals with BPD do not show deficits in skill strengthening as compared to HCs.

scholarly journals P055 Mechanisms Underlying Sleep Disturbance in Young People with Borderline Personality Disorder Features

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. A39-A39
Author(s):  
C Jenkins ◽  
K Thompson ◽  
C Nicholas ◽  
A Chanen
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Young People ◽  
Impulse Control ◽  
Emotional Awareness ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategies ◽  
Subjective Sleep ◽  
Regulation Strategies

Abstract Introduction Sleep problems are common in young people (aged 15–25 years) with features of borderline personality disorder (BPD). Yet the mechanisms underlying this relationship remain largely unknown. This study explored the indirect roles of emotion regulation difficulties, depression, anxiety and stress in the relationship between BPD features and sleep disturbance in young people. Method Sleep was measured subjectively (self-report) and objectively (10 days wrist actigraphy) in 40 young people with BPD features (36 females, Mage = 19.77, SD = 2.51) and 38 healthy young people (34 females, Mage = 20.06, SD = 2.52). Participants also completed the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale and the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale. Results Mediation analyses revealed that impulse control difficulties, limited access to emotion regulation strategies, and anxiety played an indirect role in subjective sleep disturbances in young people with BPD features. Lack of emotional awareness and anxiety indirectly contributed to associations between BPD features and objectively longer time in bed and bedtime variability, respectively. Discussion Targeting impulse control difficulties, emotion regulation strategies and anxiety through improving impulse control, improving emotion regulation skills and reducing pre-sleep arousal might be beneficial for improving subjective sleep in this population. Similarly, improving emotional awareness and reducing anxiety might help to normalise objective sleep patterns. Overall, these findings help to guide the development of targeted sleep-improvement strategies that might serve as useful adjuncts to current interventions for young people with BPD features.

scholarly journals A Day in the Life of Borderline Personality Disorder: A Preliminary Analysis of Within-Day Emotion Generation and Regulation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew W. Southward ◽  
Stephen Semcho ◽  
Nicole Stumpp ◽  
Destiney MacLean ◽  
Shannon Sauer-Zavala
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Behavioral Responses ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategies ◽  
Emotion Intensity ◽  
Regulation Strategies

In Linehan’s (1993) biosocial theory, borderline personality disorder (BPD) results in part from frequent, intense, negative emotions and maladaptive behavioral responses to those emotions. We conducted a secondary data analysis of an intensive single-case experimental design to explore hourly relations among behavioral responses and emotions in BPD. Eight participants with BPD (Mage = 21.57, 63% female; 63% Asian) reported their emotions and behaviors hourly on two days. Participants reported a neutral-to-negative average emotional state with substantial variability each day. This emotional state was characterized most frequently by anxiety and joy. Participants tended to “dig into”, or savor, experiences of joy, but problem-solve around, push away, or accept anxiety. Acceptance predicted hour-by-hour increases in negative emotion intensity, and pushing emotions away predicted hour-by-hour increases in positive emotion intensity. These results suggest that anxiety dominates the emotional experiences of people with BPD and co-occurs with a variety of emotion regulation strategies, while joy co-occurs with strategies designed to prolong emotional experiences. Despite its general adaptiveness, acceptance may be less effective, and pushing emotions away may be more effective, than other emotion regulation strategies at improving momentary negative emotions for those with BPD. We discuss the preliminary nature of these findings and encourage future researchers to build on them in larger samples with more severe presentations of BPD.

scholarly journals Emotion regulation, mindfulness, and self-compassion among patients with borderline personality disorder, compared to healthy control subjects

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. e0248409
Author(s):  
Ella Salgó ◽  
Liliána Szeghalmi ◽  
Bettina Bajzát ◽  
Eszter Berán ◽  
Zsolt Unoka
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Healthy Control Group ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategies ◽  
Self Compassion ◽  
Healthy Control ◽  
Regulation Strategies

Objectives Emotion regulation difficulties are a major characteristic of personality disorders. Our study investigated emotion regulation difficulties that are characteristic of borderline personality disorder (BPD), compared to a healthy control group. Methods Patients with BPD (N = 59) and healthy participants (N = 70) filled out four self-report questionnaires (Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire, Self-Compassion Scale) that measured the presence or lack of different emotion-regulation strategies. Differences between the BPD and the healthy control group were investigated by Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) and univariate post-hoc F-test statistics. Results People suffering from BPD had statistically significantly (p<0.05) higher levels of emotional dysregulation and used more maladaptive emotion-regulation strategies, as well as lower levels of mindfulness and self-compassion compared to the HC group. Conclusion In comparison to a healthy control group, BPD patients show deficits in the following areas: mindfulness, self-compassion and adaptive emotion-regulation strategies. Based on these results, we suggest that teaching emotion-regulation, mindfulness, and self-compassion skills to patients can be crucial in the treatment of borderline personality disorder.

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