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Emotion regulation, mindfulness, and self-compassion among patients with borderline personality disorder, compared to healthy control subjects.
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- Anxiety and Emotional Intelligence as Predictors of Coping with Stress in Patients with Personality Disorders-A Single-Arm Pre-Post Observational Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Emotion Dysregulation as a Core Feature of Borderline Personality Disorder: Associations with Impulsivity and Symptom Severity in Emerging Adulthood.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- A protocol for MIndfulness-based Neurofeedback to augment DBT psychotherapy for adults with Borderline Personality Disorder (MIND-BPD).PloS one · 2026Article
- A protocol formedRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
- "The Sheep Did It Again": Replication of Animal-Assisted Treatment in Psychiatric Inpatients with Substance Use Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder in a Randomized Controlled Trial.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Exploring Barriers to Compassionate Acts in Individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder: A Critical Literature Review.Personality and mental health · 2025Review
- The Relationship Between Feelings of Emptiness and Self-Harm Among Thai Patients Exhibiting Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms: The Mediating Role of the Inner Strengths.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Article
- Examining Social Anxiety Symptoms with Early Maladaptive Schemas: The Mediating Role of Mindfulness and Self-Compassion.Turk psikiyatri dergisi = Turkish journal of psychiatry · 2024Article
- Mindfulness Intervention Improves Coping and Perceptions of Children's Behavior among Families with Elevated Risk.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Non-suicidal self-injury in adolescents with mood disorders and the roles of self-compassion and emotional regulation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Frequency of binge eating behavior in patients with borderline personality disorder and its relation to emotional regulation and impulsivity.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Article
- An examination of the relations between emotion dysregulation, dissociation, and self-injury among dissociative disorder patients.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2022Article
- Schema modes and their associations with emotion regulation, mindfulness, and self-compassion among patients with personality disorders.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectivesEmotion regulation difficulties are a major characteristic of personality disorders. Our study investigated emotion regulation difficulties that are characteristic of borderline personality disorder (BPD), compared to a healthy control group.
methodsPatients with BPD (N = 59) and healthy participants (N = 70) filled out four self-report questionnaires (Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire, Self-Compassion Scale) that measured the presence or lack of different emotion-regulation strategies. Differences between the BPD and the healthy control group were investigated by Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) and univariate post-hoc F-test statistics.
resultsPeople suffering from BPD had statistically significantly (p<0.05) higher levels of emotional dysregulation and used more maladaptive emotion-regulation strategies, as well as lower levels of mindfulness and self-compassion compared to the HC group.
conclusionIn comparison to a healthy control group, BPD patients show deficits in the following areas: mindfulness, self-compassion and adaptive emotion-regulation strategies. Based on these results, we suggest that teaching emotion-regulation, mindfulness, and self-compassion skills to patients can be crucial in the treatment of borderline personality disorder.
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