ArticlePersonality disorders2014
Prospective associations between features of borderline personality disorder, emotion dysregulation, and aggression.
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- Emotional dysregulation as trans-nosographic psychopathological dimension in adulthood: A systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
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- The relation of borderline personality disorder to aggression, victimization, and institutional misconduct among prisoners.Comprehensive psychiatry · 2018Trial
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- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Aggression: The Role of Emotion Regulation.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2026Article
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- Personality traits or emotional dysregulation: a multiple mediation analyses of adolescent depression.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2025Article
- Prospective relationships between positive emotion dysregulation and borderline personality disorder features among women experiencing intimate partner violence.Personality disorders · 2025Article
- Borderline Personality as a Factor in Late, Missed, and Mis-Diagnosis in Autistic Girls and Women: A Conceptual Analysis.Autism in adulthood · 2024Article
- A Longitudinal Network of Borderline-Related Trait Vulnerabilities from Childhood to Adolescence.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2024Article
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- Empathy and psychopathology in children and adolescents: the role of parental mental illness and emotion regulation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Gender differences in borderline personality disorder: a narrative review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Review
- Inflammation and emotion regulation: a narrative review of evidence and mechanisms in emotion dysregulation disorders.Neuronal signaling · 2023Review
- Protective Community Norms and Mental Health Risks for Severe Physical Abuse: Lessons From a Nationally Representative Study of Ghana.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2023Article
- The effect of individual characteristics on susceptibility to aggressive and/or intimidating approaches: quantifying probability pathways by creating a victimization model.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2023Article
- Exploring the impact of childhood maltreatment and BPD on impulsivity in crimes of passion.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Clarifying the synergistic effects of emotion dysregulation and inhibitory control on physical aggression.Human brain mapping · 2022Article
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Abstract
Difficulties with emotion regulation and behavioral instability, including impulsive aggression, are seen as core dimensions underlying borderline personality disorder (BPD). Although both BPD and antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) are associated with impulsivity and aggressive behavior, difficulties regulating emotions may be associated uniquely with BPD and may explain distinctive associations between BPD and aggression. This study was designed to examine the unique prospective associations between BPD symptoms at baseline, difficulties with emotion regulation and trait impulsivity, and psychological and physical aggression (both perpetration and victimization) over the course of a year after controlling for ASPD symptoms in a mixed clinical and community sample of adults (N = 150). Results of a multivariate path analysis demonstrated that associations between BPD symptoms at baseline and later psychological and physical aggression were fully mediated by difficulties with emotion regulation. Although BPD symptoms also predicted trait impulsivity, impulsivity did not predict aggression after controlling for emotion dysregulation. ASPD symptoms were directly associated with physical assault perpetration and victimization but were not associated with emotion dysregulation, impulsivity, or psychological aggression. These findings suggest that although both BPD and ASPD are associated with aggressive behaviors, associations between BPD symptoms and aggression are mediated uniquely by difficulties regulating emotions.
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