Schema modes and their associations with emotion regulation, mindfulness, and self-compassion among patients with personality disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The current study's goal was to examine the multivariate patterns of associations between schema modes and emotion regulation mechanisms in personality disorders. Schema modes are either integrated or dissociative states of mind, including intense emotional states, efforts to regulate emotions, or self-reflective evaluative thought processes. Exploring the multivariate patterns of a shared relationship between schema modes and emotion regulation strategies may lead to a better understanding of their associations and a deeper understanding of the latent personality profiles that organize their associations in a mixed personality disorder sample.

Methods

Patients who have personality disorders (N = 263) filled out five different self-report questionnaires, out of wh

SUBMITTER: Salgo E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8194201 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature