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Stability and variability of affective experience and interpersonal behavior in borderline personality disorder
- Source :
- Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 116:578-588
- Publication Year :
- 2007
- Publisher :
- American Psychological Association (APA), 2007.
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Abstract
- This study examined both mean levels and intraindividual variability in the mood and interpersonal behavior of individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and nonclinical control participants over a 20-day event-contingent recording period. Individuals in the BPD group experienced more unpleasantly valenced affect and were less dominant, more submissive, more quarrelsome, and more extreme in overall levels of behavior than control participants. In addition to these mean-level differences, individuals with BPD also reported more intraindividual variability in overall affect valence and in pleasantly valenced affect; displayed greater variability in dominant, quarrelsome, and agreeable behaviors; and exhibited an increased tendency to "spin" among interpersonal behaviors relative to nonclinical control participants. The findings document behavioral and affective manifestations of BPD in the context of naturally occurring interpersonal situations.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
050103 clinical psychology
050109 social psychology
Interpersonal communication
Affect (psychology)
behavioral disciplines and activities
Developmental psychology
Interpersonal relationship
Borderline Personality Disorder
Surveys and Questionnaires
mental disorders
medicine
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Valence (psychology)
Young adult
Social Behavior
Borderline personality disorder
Biological Psychiatry
05 social sciences
medicine.disease
Social relation
Affect
Clinical Psychology
Psychiatry and Mental health
Mood
Female
Psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19391846 and 0021843X
- Volume :
- 116
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Abnormal Psychology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....10bffda88e8d8878f8fd8611b7fcbbcd