Sexual Orientation and Borderline Personality Disorder Features in a Community Sample of Adolescents

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 694-707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tyson R. Reuter ◽  
Carla Sharp ◽  
Allison H. Kalpakci ◽  
Hye J. Choi ◽  
Jeff R. Temple
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Borderline Personality

Sexual Orientation and Gender of Intimate Relationship Partners Among Adolescents With BPD and Psychiatrically Healthy Adolescents

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Mary C. Zanarini ◽  
Laura R. Magni ◽  
Christina M. Temes ◽  
Katherine E. Hein ◽  
Blaise A. Aguirre ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Intimate Relationship ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Relationship Partners ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Same Gender ◽  
And Gender

The first aim of this study was to describe reported sexual orientation in a group of adolescents diagnosed with borderline personality disorder compared to a group of psychiatrically healthy adolescents. The second purpose was to compare data on dating and gender of dating partners in the same two groups. Two semistructured interviews, which assessed sexual orientation, dating history, and gender of dating partners, were administered to 104 borderline adolescents and 60 psychiatrically healthy comparison subjects. Borderline adolescents were significantly more likely than comparison subjects to report having a gay/lesbian/bisexual orientation. They also were significantly more likely to date and to report dating a same-gender partner or same- and other-gender partners than comparison subjects. The results of this study suggest that same-gender attraction and/or intimate relationships may be an important interpersonal issue for approximately one-third of adolescents with BPD.

Borderline personality disorder traits associate with midlife cardiometabolic risk

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taylor Barber ◽  
Whitney R. Ringwald ◽  
Aidan G.C. Wright ◽  
Stephen N. Manuck
Keyword(s):  
Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Cardiometabolic Risk ◽  
Depressive Symptomatology ◽  
Disease Risk ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Cardiovascular Disease Risk ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Equation Modeling

There is growing interest in relationships between borderline personality disorder (BPD) pathology and physical health outcomes. Diagnostic BPD and BPD-related traits, for instance, have been shown to associate with self-reported cardiovascular disease and various cardiometabolic risk factors. However, potential confounding of these associations by comorbid depression, which itself contributes to risk for heart disease, remains unresolved, and prior research is limited by nearly uniform reliance on self-reported health status. In the present study, we examine the association of BPD traits and contemporaneously assessed depressive mood with instrumented measures of cardiometabolic risk in a midlife community sample (N = 1,295). BPD pathology was measured using dimensional, multi-informant trait measures; depressive symptomology was self-reported; and cardiometabolic risk was indexed via multiple indicators of insulin resistance, adiposity, dyslipidemia, and blood pressure. Structural equation modeling was used to estimate the effects of BPD traits and depressive symptoms on aggregated cardiometabolic risk, adjusting for their shared variance. Results showed both BPD pathology features and depressive symptomatology related to extent of cardiometabolic risk; when examined simultaneously, only BPD associated independently with risk indicators. In further supporting a link between BPD pathology and cardiovascular disease risk, these findings warrant future work to elucidate intervening behavioral and biological mechanisms.

scholarly journals Blinded by our emotions: The impact of borderline personality disorder and affect on emotion recognition sensitivity

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 204380871881887 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kibby McMahon ◽  
Kwanguk Kim ◽  
Caitlin M. Fang ◽  
Andrada D. Neacsiu ◽  
M. Zachary Rosenthal
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Negative Affect ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Independent Effect ◽  
Positive And Negative Affect ◽  
The Impact

Previous studies have demonstrated abnormalities in emotion recognition within individuals diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD). However, it is yet unknown how much these abnormalities can be attributed to emotional states or affect. Therefore, the current study aimed to investigate the independent effects of BPD, positive affect, and negative affect on emotion recognition sensitivity. We recruited a mixed, transdiagnostic community sample of 118 adults diagnosed with either a personality disorder, only an affective disorder, or without psychopathology. Participants completed self-report assessments of positive and negative affect and two behavioral assessments of emotion recognition sensitivity. We found that both positive and negative affect predict lower overall emotion recognition sensitivity in both tasks, beyond the effect of BPD. We did not find a significant, independent effect of the diagnosis of BPD. Additionally, we found that the diagnosis of BPD moderated the relationship between negative affect and emotion recognition sensitivity within one task. Findings from the present study suggest that sensitivity to other people’s emotional expressions may be influenced by affect beyond the effect of the BPD diagnosis. The implications for future research efforts on emotion recognition and BPD are discussed.

scholarly journals Cognitive Conflict in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Study Protocol

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 180
Author(s):  
Victor Suarez ◽  
Guillem Feixas
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Cognitive Conflict ◽  
Explanatory Models ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Mental Condition ◽  
Personal Construct ◽  
Predictive Capacity ◽  
Grid Technique

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) represents a severe mental condition that is usually characterized by distressing identity disturbances. Although most prevailing explanatory models and psychotherapy approaches consider and intervene on self-concept, they seem not to recognize or explore idiosyncratic cognitive conflicts that patients may experience. These conflicts, which have been conceptualized as “implicative dilemmas” and “dilemmatic constructs” by personal construct theorists, could be considered as key elements of the explanatory model for BPD to provide a better understanding of this disorder and possibly enhance the effectiveness of contemporary psychotherapeutic approaches. The current study (Identifier: NCT04498104) aims to examine the characteristics of the interpersonal cognitive system of a group of patients diagnosed with BPD, using the repertory grid technique, and to compare them with those of a community sample. We will test if BPD participants are more affected by cognitive conflicts than controls. Additionally, we will gauge the association between cognitive conflicts and symptom severity as well as their predictive capacity of treatment outcome. The obtained results will be a necessary step to determine if cognitive conflicts have a substantial role on the explanation of BPD. It could also help to consider the development of a conflict resolution intervention module for this disorder.

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