Emotion regulation, mindfulness, and self-compassion among patients with borderline personality disorder, compared to healthy control subjects.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Emotion regulation difficulties are a major characteristic of personality disorders. Our study investigated emotion regulation difficulties that are characteristic of borderline personality disorder (BPD), compared to a healthy control group.

Methods

Patients with BPD (N = 59) and healthy participants (N = 70) filled out four self-report questionnaires (Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire, Self-Compassion Scale) that measured the presence or lack of different emotion-regulation strategies. Differences between the BPD and the healthy control group were investigated by Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) and univariate post-hoc F-test statistics.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Salgo E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7968662 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature