The Mediator Role of Negative Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies Between Interpersonal Problems and Borderline Pers
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The Mediator Role of Negative Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies Between Interpersonal Problems and Borderline Personality Beliefs M. Akyunus1 · T. Gençöz2 · S. Karakose1 Accepted: 6 October 2020 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Interpersonal difficulties and emotion regulation are the core characteristics of borderline personality disorders (BPD). However, how emotion regulation strategies contribute to the association between interpersonal problems and borderline personality symptomatology have not been highlighted within cognitive theory. The current study aims to examine the mediator role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies between interpersonal problems and borderline personality beliefs. The study consisted of 648 (381 women and 267 male) people from Turkey. In addition to Socio-Demographic Form, Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ), Inventory of Interpersonal Problems Circumplex Scales (IIP-32), and Borderline Personality Belief Subscale (BPBS) were used to collect data from participants. Results showed that negative cognitive emotion regulation strategies, particularly catastrophizing, blaming-others and self-blame, mediated interpersonal problems, and borderline personality beliefs. Since the current study used thoughtbased assessment, the findings provide enlightening information to understand the underlying cognitive processes of the borderline personality pattern, and promising clinical implications to improve intervention programs within cognitive therapy approaches. Keywords Borderline personality · Personality beliefs · Cognitive emotion regulation · Interpersonal problems
Oral presented 20th National Psychology Conference, 2018, Ankara, Turkey. * S. Karakose [email protected] Extended author information available on the last page of the article
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Introduction The last revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) promotes that the personality disorders to be assessed with a dimensional model as an alternative to categorical models (American Psychiatric Association [APA] 2013). The categorical model in the DSM assesses the personality psychopathology depending on the presence or absence of a characteristic. On the other hand, the alternative dimensional model offers an evaluation based on a continuum expressing different levels of personality characteristics. With this proposed dimensional model, researching with non-clinical samples or the using alternative measures for the assessment of pathological personality features became an alternative way to improve understanding of personality psychopathology (e.g., De Fruyt et al. 2013; Akyunus and Gençöz 2020). The present study investigates the personality psychopathology with a cognitive-level measure (e.g., schemas, beliefs) in a community sample. The dimensional model defines the impairment of self and interpersonal functioning as the first criterion of personality disorders (PD). The assess
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