ArticleJournal of affective disorders2023
Protective factors in borderline personality disorder: A multi-study analysis of conscientiousness, distress tolerance, and self-compassion.
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- Longitudinal association of distress tolerance with borderline and antisocial personality traits in a substance use treatment sample attempting sobriety.Personality disorders · 2026Article
- A Network Analysis of Inner Strength Among University Students with Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2026Article
- Self-esteem and inner strengths: a network study in Thai university students with borderline personality disorder symptoms.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Psychometric validation and measurement invariance of the self-compassion scale-short form (SCS-SF) across gender, clinical population, and cultures.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Exploring Barriers to Compassionate Acts in Individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder: A Critical Literature Review.Personality and mental health · 2025Review
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Abstract
backgroundDespite a growing literature characterizing risk factors associated with the development and maintenance of borderline personality disorder (BPD), substantially less is known about potentially protective factors in BPD.
methodsIn a sample of online (N = 272) participants with likely BPD, major depressive disorder (MDD), or no disorder (ND) and an independent sample of in-person (N = 90) participants diagnosed with BPD, MDD, or ND, we tested the cross-sectional and longitudinal associations among BPD features and three putatively protective personality, cognitive, and affective-behavioral factors: conscientiousness, self-compassion, and distress tolerance.
resultsOnly conscientiousness was significantly lower in BPD than MDD (ds: .67-.73) across both studies and more strongly related to BPD features (rs: -.68 to -.59) than MDD symptoms (rs: -.49 to -.43) in dimensional analyses across both studies. However, in a multiple regression analysis including all three factors in Study 1, only self-compassion predicted decreases in BPD features (β = -.28) and MDD symptoms (β = -.21) over one month. LIMITATIONS: Study 1 participants completed all measures online and exhibited some differential attrition at one month follow-up. Study 2 participants were all diagnosed by one trained assessor and the smaller sample size limited our power to detect effects.
conclusionsLow conscientiousness may be most strongly related to BPD, whereas self-compassion may be a prospective transdiagnostic protective factor.
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