scholarly journals Borderline Personality Disorder Symptom Comorbidity Within a High Externalizing Sample: Relationship to the Internalizing-Externalizing Dimensional Structure of Psychopathology

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 814-826 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen J. Bailey ◽  
Peter R. Finn
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Externalizing Problems ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Dimensional Structure ◽  
Externalizing Psychopathology ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Disorder Symptom ◽  
Continuous Measures ◽  
Internalizing And Externalizing

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is highly comorbid with internalizing and externalizing psychopathology. The current study replicates findings indicating that BPD symptomatology is influenced by the distress subfactor of both the internalizing and the externalizing dimension of psychopathology. Confirmatory factor analysis of the covariance of continuous measures of externalizing pathology, internalizing pathology, and BPD symptoms was assessed in 837 young adults. The sample contained a range of externalizing severity from none to high severity, leading to an overrepresentation of externalizing problems. BPD symptoms were associated with both the externalizing dimension and the distress subfactor of the internalizing dimension. Interestingly, BPD had a stronger association with the externalizing dimension than observed in previous studies. Results replicated earlier findings using different and more dimensional measures. Findings indicated that BPD is more heavily influenced by the externalizing dimension of psychopathology within a high externalizing sample, such as those presenting for treatment of alcohol or substance use disorders.

Age-related differences in borderline personality disorder symptom networks in a transdiagnostic sample

2020 ◽  
Vol 274 ◽  
pp. 508-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew D. Peckham ◽  
Payton Jones ◽  
Ivar Snorrason ◽  
Inga Wessman ◽  
Courtney Beard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Disorder Symptom

scholarly journals Implicit and Explicit Mentalizing Deficits in Adolescent Inpatients: Specificity and Incremental Value of Borderline Pathology

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (Supplement B) ◽  
pp. 64-83
Author(s):  
Francesca Penner ◽  
Veronica McLaren ◽  
Jacob Leavitt ◽  
Omer Faruk Akca ◽  
Carla Sharp
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Healthy Controls ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Incremental Value ◽  
Healthy Control ◽  
Implicit And Explicit ◽  
Adolescent Inpatients ◽  
Internalizing And Externalizing

Research has demonstrated mentalizing impairment associated with borderline personality disorder (BPD) in adolescents. However, mentalizing performance in adolescents with BPD has never been compared to that of psychiatric control and healthy control adolescents simultaneously. The present study aimed to (a) compare implicit and explicit mentalizing, and hypermentalizing errors in implicit mentalizing, across youth with BPD and psychiatric and healthy controls, and (b) evaluate the association of borderline features with mentalizing deficits over and above internalizing and externalizing. Psychiatric inpatients with BPD (n = 139), inpatient psychiatric controls (n = 310), and healthy adolescents (n = 134) completed two mentalizing tasks, an interview assessing BPD, and measures of psychopathology. Results showed that BPD specificity could be demonstrated only for implicit mentalizing and hypermentalizing. Explicit mentalizing deficits did not differ between BPD and psychiatric control groups. Borderline features had unique associations to implicit mentalizing and hypermentalizing, over and above internalizing and externalizing.

A prospective investigation of the development of borderline personality symptoms

2009 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 1311-1334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Carlson ◽  
Byron Egeland ◽  
L. Alan Sroufe
Keyword(s):  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Developmental Psychopathology ◽  
Diagnostic Interview ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Disorder Symptom ◽  
Attachment Disorganization ◽  
The Individual

AbstractThe antecedents and developmental course of borderline personality disorder symptoms were examined prospectively from infancy to adulthood using longitudinal data from a risk sample (N= 162). Borderline personality disorder symptom counts were derived from the Structured Clinical Interview forDSMDisorders diagnostic interview at age 28 years. Correlational analyses confirmed expected relations between borderline symptoms and contemporary adult disturbance (e.g., self-injurious behavior, dissociative symptoms, drug use, relational violence) as well as maltreatment history. Antecedent correlational and regression analyses revealed significant links between borderline symptoms in adulthood and endogenous (i.e., temperament) and environmental (e.g., attachment disorganization, parental hostility) history in early childhood and disturbance across domains of child functioning (e.g., attention, emotion, behavior, relationship, self-representation) in middle childhood/early adolescence. Process analyses revealed a significant mediating effect of self-representation on the relation between attachment disorganization on borderline symptoms. The findings are discussed within a developmental psychopathology framework in which disturbance in self-processes is constructed through successive transactions between the individual and environment.

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