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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"affective instability"”.
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Abuse Victimization and Impulsivity in Incarcerated Males: Examining the Roles of Affective Instability and Trauma Symptoms
… abuse were each positively correlated with affective instability, trauma symptoms, total impulsivity, and motor impulsivity. Affective instability and trauma symptoms were shown to fully mediate the relationship between each type of abuse and total impulsivity. Results also indicated that …
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Analysis of affective instability on ecological momentary assessments data: successive difference, variance decomposition, and mean comparison via multilevel modeling
Temporal instability of affect is a defining characteristic of some psychological disorders such as Borderline Personality Disorder and mood cycling disorders. Use of Ecological Momentary Assessments (EMA) enables researchers to directly assess such frequent and extreme fluctuations over time. Two …
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The role of perceived nonshared environment and personality traits in the etiology of bulimia nervosa
… (c) personality traits (i.e., implusivity, affective instability, narcissism), and (d) psychopathology. In general, bulimics exhibited higher levels of eating disturbances and psychopathology than sisters. Furthermore, compared to their sisters, bulimics reported being more insecurely …
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Exploring Gender Differences Between Bipolar Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder in Responses on the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI)
… of borderline personality disorder (i.e., affective instability, identity problems, negative relationships, and self-harm) and the main features of bipolar disorder (i.e., activity level, grandiosity, and irritability), each corresponding with the specific Personality Assessment Inventory …
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Ambulatory assessment of physiological arousal, emotion, and alcohol use
… enlisted participants (n=43) oversampled for affective instability, arguably making them at higher risk for negative affect-driven alcohol consumption. The goals of this study were to 1) validate an ambulatory device for measuring electrodermal activity (EDA) and to 2) examine the relations …
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On within-defense variability and defenses in male federal offenders
… BPI as well as BPI total score, and it predicted affective instability factor scores on the PAS, as well as PAS total score. Conversely, the ADS predicted PCL-R total and Factor 1 scores. The relation between the Defense-Q ADP similarity score and the PCL-R interpersonal facet was significantly …