The relationship between borderline personality features and affective responses to altering emotional context
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The relationship between borderline personality features and affective responses to altering emotional context Sojeong Kim 1 & Kibum Moon 1 & Jinwon Kim 1 & Young-gun Ko 1 Accepted: 17 September 2020 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract The aim of the current study was to explore the relationship between borderline personality (BP) features and the ability to shift one’s affective responses as emotional circumstances and demands change. A total of 86 analogue participants viewed dynamic neutral facial expressions at baseline, negative facial expressions, and immediately following neutral facial expressions. We assessed whether participants were able to change their affective ratings as the context of presented facial stimuli changed from negative to neutral. Results revealed that higher the BP feature severity, participants exhibited lower affective ratings to neutral facial stimuli following negative ones. This result remained notable even after baseline affect ratings of neutral stimuli, depressive symptoms, anxiety, and anger proneness as personality traits were controlled for. Our results imply that vulnerability in flexibly changing one’s affect to situational demand can contribute to emotion dysregulation related to BP features. We add to the past research by further elucidating the constituents underlying BP features. Keywords Borderline personality features . Affective rating . Affective change . Emotional dysregulation . Emotional reactivity . Emotional recovery
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a perplexing and debilitating psychiatric disorder that affects 2.7 to 5.9% of the general population and approximately 15 to 20% of the psychiatric inpatient population (Shen et al. 2017). Analogue participants with high BP feature severity also show notable difficulties in social functioning (e.g., Dixon-Gordon et al. 2011) and more self-reported academic, emotional, and interpersonal difficulties compared to those without the features (Trull et al. 1997). One of the most prominent theories of BPD development, Biosocial theory (Linehan 1993) proposed that emotional dysregulation is the core feature related to borderline personality. Also, it is known to be the most stable
* Young-gun Ko [email protected] Sojeong Kim [email protected] Kibum Moon [email protected] Jinwon Kim [email protected] 1
Department of Psychology, Korea University, Seongbuk-Gu, Seoul, Anam-Dong, South Korea
feature over time (McGlashan et al. 2005). Given the clinical importance, several studies have aimed at investigating the constituents of emotional dysregulation. Extant research has examined hyperreactivity, a critical construct of emotional dysregulation, in BPD samples. Studies have reported that BPD patients experienced heightened negativity to their daily stressors than did the psychotic comparison group (Glaser et al. 2008) and nonclinical control group (Stiglmayr et al. 2005) using ecological momentary assessment (EMA). Similarly, some laboratory-based studies reported that th
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