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Showing 1 to 20 of 152 for “"borderline personality"”.
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Neuropsychological Correlates of Borderline Personality Disorder
In the current study, participants with borderline personality disorder (BPD) displayed deficits in neuropsychological functioning when compared with healthy controls. Participants with BPD performed worse on all measures of cognitive functioning: attention, verbal memory, processing speed and a …
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Neuropsychological Correlates of Borderline Personality Disorder
In the current study, participants with borderline personality disorder (BPD) displayed deficits in neuropsychological functioning when compared with healthy controls. Participants with BPD performed worse on all measures of cognitive functioning: attention, verbal memory, processing speed and a …
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Emotional regulation in borderline personality disorder
… literature relating to emotional regulation in borderline personality disorder. A number of issues relating to the disorder are discussed, including problems with the categorical system of diagnosis and potential co-morbidity. The prominent models of treatment are reviewed along with the …
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Emotion Regulation and Borderline Personality Features
… that emotion dysregulation is a key feature of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), it remains unclear how the process of emotion regulation is disrupted in this population. This thesis makes an original contribution to knowledge by exploring how emotion regulation is conducted by individuals …
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Emotion Regulation Abilities and Strategies in Borderline Personality Disorder
Borderline personality disorder (BPD), a complex disorder linked to adverse behavioral outcomes and impaired functioning, is associated with difficulties in emotion regulation (ER)—including both ER abilities and use of ER strategies. BPD commonly co-occurs with other disorders that are themselves …
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The Relationship Between Co-Dependence and Borderline Personality Disorder
… diagnostic category. It has been compared with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and this relationship was investigated.</p> <p>Method. Representative samples of the voluminous literature on CODC and BPD were reviewed in an effort to identify commonalities. The characteristics used for …
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Towards an object-relations understanding of the borderline personality
… Object-Relations understanding of the borderline personality. Towards that end theoretical issues related to the borderline concept were introduced and certain controversial aspects were briefly discussed. A review of the pertinent descriptive literature attempting to detail borderline …
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INVESTIGATING THE ROLE OF DAILY PERSONALITY IN BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER
… investigates whether daily changes in a person’s personality are associated with daily changes in a person’s Borderline Personality Disorder (borderline) symptoms. A large body of literature has suggested an association between Five-factor model (FFM) personality and borderline symptoms, and some …
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Exploring Subgroups of Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms through Symptom Experience
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a detrimental and complex disorder under much scrutiny in personality disorder literature. Heterogeneity within diagnosis, or unique combinations of symptoms diagnosed as BPD, is excessive within this disorder. Researchers have attempted to identify …
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Parasympathethic Nervous Activity and Social Exclusion in Borderline Personality Disorder
… However, for individuals that suffer from Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), the experience of social exclusion, or ostracism can be unbearable (Bortolla, et al., 2019).<strong> </strong>While there is a significant amount of research on physiological reactivity in BPD, no studies …
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Ability emotional intelligence, trait emotional intelligence and borderline personality disorder
… although the former was more distinctive from personality. The TEIQue produced mixed findings: the factors tructurew as inconsistent with the theoreticals tructure (preliminarya nalyses) but incremental validity was favourable. Placed within a theoretical context, results confin-n the …
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Borderline personality disorder: a study of adult personality and childhood trauma
Borderline PersonaHty Disorder (BPD) is a complex phenomenon which poses a considerable challenge to mental health researchers and clinicians. This research aimed to investigate childhood trauma history and BPD, and possible overlap with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, following a path set by …
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Understanding urgency in borderline personality disorder: disinhibition or impulsive emotion regulation?
<p>Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a serious and costly disorder characterized by emotional dysregulation and risky, impulsive behaviors. Urgency is a type of impulsivity that has been strongly associated with symptoms of BPD, and it remains unclear whether Urgency represents a failure of …
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Measurement Invariance Between Genders on Two Measures of Borderline Personality Disorder
<p>Gender bias in the diagnosis and assessment of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) has been the subject of much controversy in the psychological research literature. Evidence regarding differential prevalence rates and diagnostic rates in clinical settings between genders has been mixed, and …
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Assessigng Mandala Art in an Adolescent Diagnosed with Borderline Personality Features
… therapy literature relevant to adolescents with borderline symptomatology and focuses on “splitting”, resulting in a fragmented ego, as one of the principle mechanisms underlying the borderline personality disorder. It explores the therapeutic process of mandala making and introduces assessing …
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Trauma, Borderline Personality Disorder, and Self-Harm: A Counselling Psychology Perspective
This research study aims to explore how self-harm is being constructed within available discursive resources in contemporary western society. A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis was conducted on a sample of professional documents on self-harm and interview transcripts: these included 6 interviews with …
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Childhood recollections as predictors of specific features of borderline personality disorder
… psychopathology, are relevant to the etiology of borderline personality disorder (BPD). The present sought to tease apart the relative strength of relationship between these childhood factors and specific features of BPD in adults. Four hypotheses were tested. The first two are: childhood neglect …
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Evaluating the Borderline Personality: A Study of Identity and Narrative Voice
Analyzing the relationship between reality and narrative descriptions of it reveals the premium placed on individuals' ability to produce coherent autobiographical narratives. Those lacking this ability, or those producing narratives that defy cultural norms often become labeled as pathological. …
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