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Body self-evaluation and physical scars in patients with borderline personality disorder: an observational study
BACKGROUND: Data from general psychology suggest that body self-evaluation is linked to self-esteem and social emotions. Although these emotions are fragile in individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD), body self-evaluation is clearly understudied in BPD research. METHODS: A total of 20...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4574386/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26401287 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2051-6673-1-2 |
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author | Kleindienst, Nikolaus Priebe, Kathlen Borgmann, Elisabeth Cornelisse, Sven Krüger, Antje Ebner-Priemer, Ulrich Dyer, Anne |
author_facet | Kleindienst, Nikolaus Priebe, Kathlen Borgmann, Elisabeth Cornelisse, Sven Krüger, Antje Ebner-Priemer, Ulrich Dyer, Anne |
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description | BACKGROUND: Data from general psychology suggest that body self-evaluation is linked to self-esteem and social emotions. Although these emotions are fragile in individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD), body self-evaluation is clearly understudied in BPD research. METHODS: A total of 200 women took part in the study: 80 female BPD patients, and 47 healthy and 73 clinical controls including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after childhood sexual abuse (CSA). Diagnoses were established through standardised interviews conducted by experienced psychologists. The participants used the Survey of Body Areas to indicate which areas of their own bodies they liked or disliked and to mark the locations of physical scars. RESULTS: Compared to healthy controls, both BPD patients and patients with PTSD after CSA had a predominantly negative body self-evaluation (Cohen’s d = 1.42 and 1.38, respectively). As indicated by multilevel analyses, scars were related to a negative evaluation of the affected areas in BPD patients, but not in the control groups. Subgroup analyses revealed that the negative body self-evaluation applies to both BPD patients with and without PTSD or reported CSA. CONCLUSIONS: BPD patients show a negative body self-evaluation which is associated with the presence of scars but not with CSA. |
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spelling | pubmed-45743862015-09-23 Body self-evaluation and physical scars in patients with borderline personality disorder: an observational study Kleindienst, Nikolaus Priebe, Kathlen Borgmann, Elisabeth Cornelisse, Sven Krüger, Antje Ebner-Priemer, Ulrich Dyer, Anne Borderline Personal Disord Emot Dysregul Research Article BACKGROUND: Data from general psychology suggest that body self-evaluation is linked to self-esteem and social emotions. Although these emotions are fragile in individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD), body self-evaluation is clearly understudied in BPD research. METHODS: A total of 200 women took part in the study: 80 female BPD patients, and 47 healthy and 73 clinical controls including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after childhood sexual abuse (CSA). Diagnoses were established through standardised interviews conducted by experienced psychologists. The participants used the Survey of Body Areas to indicate which areas of their own bodies they liked or disliked and to mark the locations of physical scars. RESULTS: Compared to healthy controls, both BPD patients and patients with PTSD after CSA had a predominantly negative body self-evaluation (Cohen’s d = 1.42 and 1.38, respectively). As indicated by multilevel analyses, scars were related to a negative evaluation of the affected areas in BPD patients, but not in the control groups. Subgroup analyses revealed that the negative body self-evaluation applies to both BPD patients with and without PTSD or reported CSA. CONCLUSIONS: BPD patients show a negative body self-evaluation which is associated with the presence of scars but not with CSA. BioMed Central 2014-04-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4574386/ /pubmed/26401287 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2051-6673-1-2 Text en © Kleindienst et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Kleindienst, Nikolaus Priebe, Kathlen Borgmann, Elisabeth Cornelisse, Sven Krüger, Antje Ebner-Priemer, Ulrich Dyer, Anne Body self-evaluation and physical scars in patients with borderline personality disorder: an observational study |
title | Body self-evaluation and physical scars in patients with borderline personality disorder: an observational study |
title_full | Body self-evaluation and physical scars in patients with borderline personality disorder: an observational study |
title_fullStr | Body self-evaluation and physical scars in patients with borderline personality disorder: an observational study |
title_full_unstemmed | Body self-evaluation and physical scars in patients with borderline personality disorder: an observational study |
title_short | Body self-evaluation and physical scars in patients with borderline personality disorder: an observational study |
title_sort | body self-evaluation and physical scars in patients with borderline personality disorder: an observational study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4574386/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26401287 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2051-6673-1-2 |
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