How does mindfulness skills training work to improve emotion dysregulation in borderline personality disorder?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mindfulness skills training is a core component of Dialectical Behavior Therapy and aims to improve emotion dysregulation (ED) in people with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). However, the underlying mechanisms of change are not fully understood.

Methods

A total of 75 BPD outpatients participated in a 10-week mindfulness skills training. Multilevel models with a time-lagged approach were conducted to examine the temporal dynamics between the proposed mechanisms and ED. Decentering, nonjudgment, body awareness and attention awareness as putative mechanisms and ED as outcome were assessed on a session-by-session basis.

Results

Greater nonjudgment and body awareness showed within-person effects; participants who reported higher nonjudgement of inner exper

SUBMITTER: Schmidt C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11367780 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature