Borderline Personality Disorder and Violence Toward Self and Others: A National Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 653-670
Author(s):  
Thomas C. Harford ◽  
Chiung M. Chen ◽  
Bradley T. Kerridge ◽  
Bridget F. Grant
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
National Study ◽  
Identity Disturbance ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Epidemiologic Survey ◽  
Using Data

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is associated with violence toward self and others. This study aims to further identify which DSM-5 BPD criteria are independently related to violence, using data from National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions–III, which included a total of 36,309 U.S. respondents ages 18 and older (n = 4,301 for BPD; n = 19,404 for subthreshold BPD). Multinomial logistic regression examined the associations between BPD criteria and violence categories, including suicide attempt (self-directed), violence toward others (other-directed), combined (self-/other-directed) violence, and no violence. In the total population, identity disturbance, impulsivity, and intense anger significantly characterized violence toward others, while avoidance of abandonment, self-mutilating behavior, feelings of emptiness, and intense anger significantly characterized violence toward self. These criteria (except identity disturbance) also significantly characterized combined self- and other-directed violence. Differential associations of the BPD criteria with violence among BPD and subthreshold BPD populations also are discussed.

scholarly journals Autobiographical memories, identity disturbance and brain functioning in patients with borderline personality disorder: An fMRI study

Heliyon ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. e01323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Bozzatello ◽  
Rosalba Morese ◽  
Maria Consuelo Valentini ◽  
Paola Rocca ◽  
Francesca Bosco ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Autobiographical Memories ◽  
Brain Functioning ◽  
Identity Disturbance ◽  
Fmri Study

scholarly journals The wandering mind in borderline personality disorder: Instability in self- and other-related thoughts

2016 ◽  
Vol 242 ◽  
pp. 302-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philipp Kanske ◽  
Lars Schulze ◽  
Isabel Dziobek ◽  
Hannah Scheibner ◽  
Stefan Roepke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Self And Other

Utility of DSM-5 section III personality traits in differentiating borderline personality disorder from comparison groups

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 22-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Bach ◽  
M. Sellbom ◽  
S. Bo ◽  
E. Simonsen
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Healthy Controls ◽  
Emotional Lability ◽  
Dsm 5 ◽  
Comparison Groups ◽  
Dsm Iv ◽  
Matched Samples

AbstractObjectiveBorderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a highly prevalent diagnosis in mental health care and includes a heterogeneous constellation of symptoms. As the field of personality disorder (PD) research moves to emphasize dimensional traits in its operationalization, it is important to determine how the alternative DSM-5 Section III personality trait dimensions differentiates such features in BPD patients versus comparison groups. To date, no study has attempted such validation.MethodThe current study examined the utility of the DSM-5 trait dimensions in differentiating patients with the categorical DSM-IV/5 diagnosis of BPD (n = 101) from systematically matched samples of other PD patients (n = 101) and healthy controls (n = 101). This was investigated using one-way ANOVA and multinomial logistic regression analyses.ResultsResults indicated that Emotional Lability, Risk Taking, and Suspiciousness uniquely differentiated BPD patients from other PD patients, whereas Emotional Lability, Depressivity, and Suspiciousness uniquely differentiated BPD patients from healthy controls.ConclusionEmotional Lability is in particular a key BPD feature of the proposed Section III model, whereas Suspiciousness also augments essential BPD features. Provided that these findings are replicated cross-culturally in forthcoming research, a more parsimonious traits operationalization of BPD features is warranted.

scholarly journals Social feedback processing in borderline personality disorder

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 575-587 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. W. Korn ◽  
L. La Rosée ◽  
H. R. Heekeren ◽  
S. Roepke
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Character Traits ◽  
Healthy Controls ◽  
Healthy Individuals ◽  
Social Feedback ◽  
Feedback Processing ◽  
Relevant Feedback ◽  
Self And Other

BackgroundPatients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) show negative and unstable self- and other-evaluations compared to healthy individuals. It is unclear, however, how they process self- and other-relevant social feedback. We have previously demonstrated a positive updating bias in healthy individuals: When receiving social feedback on character traits, healthy individuals integrate desirable more than undesirable feedback. Here, our aim was to test whether BPD patients exhibit a more negative pattern of social feedback processing.MethodWe employed a character trait task in which BPD patients interacted with four healthy participants in a real-life social interaction. Afterwards, all participants rated themselves and one other participant on 80 character traits before and after receiving feedback from their interaction partners. We compared how participants updated their ratings after receiving desirable and undesirable feedback. Our analyses included 22 BPD patients and 81 healthy controls.ResultsHealthy controls showed a positivity bias for self- and other-relevant feedback as previously demonstrated. Importantly, this pattern was altered in BPD patients: They integrated undesirable feedback for themselves to a greater degree than healthy controls did. Other-relevant feedback processing was unaltered in BPD patients.ConclusionsOur study demonstrates an alteration in self-relevant feedback processing in BPD patients that might contribute to unstable and negative self-evaluations.

scholarly journals The Role of Impairments in Self–Other Distinction in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Narrative Review of Recent Evidence

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Celine De Meulemeester ◽  
Benedicte Lowyck ◽  
Patrick Luyten
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Task Demands ◽  
Narrative Review ◽  
Integrative Model ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Central Feature ◽  
Self And Other

Impairments in maintaining a differentiated sense of “self” and “other” are thought to be a central feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD). However, studies directly focusing on self–other distinction (SOD) in BPD are scarce, and these findings have not yet been integrated with novel insights into the neural mechanism involved in SOD. Here, we present a narrative review of recent behavioral and neuroimaging findings focusing on impairments in SOD in BPD. Behavioral findings of SOD at the embodied level provide preliminary evidence for impairments in multisensory integration in BPD. Furthermore, both behavioral and neuroscientific data converge to suggest that SOD impairments in BPD reflect an inability to shift between self and other representations according to task demands. Research also suggests that disruptions in infant–caregiver synchrony may play a role in the development of these impairments. Based on these findings, we present a new, integrative model linking impairments in SOD to reduced neural and behavioral synchrony in BPD. The implications of these findings for future research and clinical interventions are outlined.

The Experience of Maltreatment in Young Children Whose Mothers Have Borderline Personality Disorder: Reflections in Their Narrative Representations

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 750-763 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Macfie ◽  
Gretchen Kurdziel
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Identity Disturbance ◽  
Narrative Representations ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Self Harm ◽  
Normative Comparisons ◽  
Negative Relationships

Child maltreatment is an etiological factor in borderline personality disorder (BPD), which may be transmitted to the children of mothers with BPD. We assessed maltreatment in 36 children aged 4–7 whose mothers have BPD and in 34 normative comparisons. Children whose mothers have BPD were more likely to have experienced sexual abuse, physical abuse, and neglect than were normative comparisons. Mothers’ self-reported borderline features were significantly correlated with children's maltreatment. Neglect was associated with mothers’ affective instability, identity disturbance, negative relationships, and self-harm; sexual abuse was associated with mothers’ identity disturbance, and negative relationships; and physical abuse was associated with mothers’ self-harm. Maltreatment mediated the relationship between all four of mothers’ borderline features and children's narrative representations of the caregiver–child relationship, which included fear of abandonment, role reversal, and mother–child relationship expectations. The authors discuss results in the context of risk for developing BPD in early adulthood and early preventive interventions targeting children's representations.

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.

scholarly journals Boredom in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Lost Criterion Reconsidered

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 239-253
Author(s):  
Sara R. Masland ◽  
Tanya V. Shah ◽  
Lois W. Choi-Kain
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorders ◽  
Diagnostic Criteria ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Cascade Model ◽  
Identity Disturbance ◽  
Behavioral Dysregulation

Difficulty with boredom was eliminated from the formal diagnostic criteria for borderline personality disorder (BPD) in 1994 based on significantly limited, unpublished data. However, it is apparent in clinical practice that boredom remains relevant to BPD. This review synthesizes empirical research, with consideration of theoretical accounts, to critically examine the relevance of boredom to BPD. We first briefly review issues in defining and measuring boredom and offer an expanded conceptualization for BPD, which includes the notion of boredom reactivity, before turning to boredom’s differentiation from and overlap with feelings of emptiness, with which it was paired prior to its removal from the DSM. We then discuss perspectives on boredom’s significance in BPD, briefly touching on its relevance in other personality disorders. We propose a Boredom Cascade Model that articulates how boredom and boredom reactivity interact with identity disturbance and chronic emptiness to create escalating patterns of behavioral dysregulation and make recommendations for research and treatment.

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