ArticleJournal of abnormal psychology2015
Borderline personality disorder symptoms and newlyweds' observed communication, partner characteristics, and longitudinal marital outcomes.
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- Communication Between Individuals With Borderline Personality Disorder and Their Partners.Personality and mental health · 2025Article
- Executive Function Deficits and Borderline Personality Disorder Symptomatology in a Nonclinical Adult Sample: A Latent Variable Analysis.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Contribution of the alternative model for DSM-5 personality disorders to relationship satisfaction.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Fear of compassion from others explains the relation between borderline personality disorder symptoms and ineffective conflict resolution strategies among patients with substance use disorders.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2022Article
- Intimate Partner Aggression and Marital Satisfaction: A Cross-Lagged Panel Analysis.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2021Article
- It Takes Two to Tango: Development, Validation, and Personality Correlates of the Acceptance of Sugar Relationships in Older Men and Women Scale (ASR-OMWS).Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Pathological personality, relationship satisfaction, and intimate partner aggression: Analyses using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, alternative model of personality disorder traits.Personality disorders · 2020Article
- Borderline Personality Traits Are Not Correlated With Brain Structure in Two Large Samples.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2020Article
- Too Much Too Soon?: Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms and Romantic Relationships in Adolescent Girls.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2019Article
- The Emotional Bank Account and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in Romantic Relationships of People with Borderline Personality Disorder: A Dyadic Observational Study.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2019Article
- Attachment styles, social behavior, and personality functioning in romantic relationships.Personality disorders · 2019Article
- Borderline personality disorder symptoms and affective responding to perceptions of rejection and acceptance from romantic versus nonromantic partners.Personality disorders · 2018Article
- Self- and partner-reported psychopathic traits' relations with couples' communication, marital satisfaction trajectories, and divorce in a longitudinal sample.Personality disorders · 2018Article
- Trait Impulsivity and Newlyweds' Marital Trajectories.Journal of personality disorders · 2017Article
- Quality of life in borderline patients comorbid with anxiety spectrum disorders - a cross-sectional study.Patient preference and adherence · 2016Article
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Given borderline personality disorder's (BPD) relation with interpersonal dysfunction, there is substantial interest in understanding BPD's effect on marriage. The current study used data from a community sample of 172 newlywed couples to examine spouses' BPD symptoms in relation to their observed communication, partner BPD symptoms, 4-year marital quality trajectories, and 10-year divorce rates. BPD symptoms were correlated cross-sectionally with more negative skills during observational problem-solving and social support tasks, and spouses reporting more BPD symptoms were married to partners reporting more BPD symptoms. Longitudinally, hierarchical linear modeling of newlyweds' 4-year marital trajectories indicated that BPD symptoms predicted the intercept of marital quality for spouses and their partners, reflecting lower levels of marital satisfaction and higher levels of marital problems. BPD symptoms did not predict 10-year divorce rates. These findings highlight the chronic relationship impairment associated with BPD symptoms, indicate that distress begins early in marriage, and suggest that partners with higher levels of BPD symptoms remain in more troubled marriages.
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