ArticlePloS one2016
Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms in College Students: The Complex Interplay between Alexithymia, Emotional Dysregulation and Rumination.
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- A systematic review and meta-analysis of the association between alexithymia and suicide ideation and behaviour.Journal of affective disorders · 2019Pooled it
- Non-Randomized Clinical Trial of a Short-Term Therapy Group for Adults Diagnosed With Borderline Personality Disorder: An Intermediate Step in Care.Journal of clinical psychology · 2025Trial
- Emotion dysregulation is heightened in autistic females: A comparison with autistic males and borderline personality disorder.Women's health (London, England)Trial
- Mentalization, Emotional Dysregulation, and Emotion-Related Impulsivity in Young Adults with Borderline Personality Disorder.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- The Transdiagnostic Role of Emotion Regulation Difficulties and Repetitive Negative Thinking in Depression, Anxiety, and Their Comorbidity.Depression and anxiety · 2026Article
- Moderating effects of emotion regulation strategies on borderline personality symptoms in young adults with adverse childhood experiences.Cogent mental health · 2024Article
- Effectiveness of internet-delivered dialectical behavior therapy skills training on executive functions among college students with borderline personality traits: a non-randomized controlled trial.Research in psychotherapy (Milano) · 2023Article
- Self-disgust in patients with borderline personality disorder. The associations with alexithymia, emotion dysregulation, and comorbid psychopathology.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2023Article
- The Association of Borderline Personality Features and Self-Injury Among Adolescents with Non-Suicidal Self-Injury: The Mediating Role of Alexithymia.Psychology research and behavior management · 2023Article
- Examining the role of brooding, distress, and negative urgency in dysregulated behaviors: A cross-sectional study in treatment-seeking young people.Journal of clinical psychology · 2022Article
- Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms and Its Clinical Correlates among Chinese University Students: A Cross-Sectional Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Trait rumination and social anxiety separately influence stress-induced rumination and hemodynamic responses.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Motivational Enhancement as a Pretreatment to a Transdiagnostic Intervention for Emerging Adults with Emotion Dysregulation: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry = Journal de l'Academie canadienne de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent · 2020Article
- Alexithymia and Its Associations With Depression, Suicidality, and Aggression: An Overview of the Literature.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Review
- Rumination, posttraumatic stress disorder, and mood symptoms in borderline personality disorder.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2019Article
- Prevalence rates, reporting, and psychosocial correlates of stalking victimization: results from a three-sample cross-sectional study.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2018Article
- Frontal EEG asymmetry in borderline personality disorder is associated with alexithymia.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2017Article
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Abstract
Both Emotional Cascade Theory and Linehan's Biosocial Theory suggest dysregulated behaviors associated with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) emerge, in part, because of cycles of rumination, poor emotional recognition and poor emotion regulation. In this study we examined relationships between rumination, alexithymia, and emotion regulation in predicting dysregulated behaviors associated with BPD (e.g. self-harm, substance use, aggression), and explored both indirect and moderating effects among these variables. The sample comprised 2261 college students who completed self-report measures of the aforementioned constructs. BPD symptoms, stress, family psychological illness, and alexithymia exerted direct effects on behaviors. Symptoms had an indirect effect on behaviors through rumination, alexithymia and emotional dysregulation. In addition, the relationship between symptoms and dysregulated behaviors was conditional on level of rumination and alexithymia. Implications for early identification and treatment of BPD and related behaviors in college settings are discussed.
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