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The specificity of emotion dysregulation in adolescents with borderline personality disorder: comparison with psychiatric and healthy controls

BACKGROUND: Research has supported the notion that emotion dysregulation is a core feature of BPD. However, given that this feature is typical of healthy adolescents as well as adolescents with other psychiatric disorders, the specificity of emotion dysregulation to BPD in this age group has not yet...

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Autores principales: Ibraheim, Marina, Kalpakci, Allison, Sharp, Carla
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5223469/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28078089
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40479-017-0052-x
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Kalpakci, Allison
Sharp, Carla
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description BACKGROUND: Research has supported the notion that emotion dysregulation is a core feature of BPD. However, given that this feature is typical of healthy adolescents as well as adolescents with other psychiatric disorders, the specificity of emotion dysregulation to BPD in this age group has not yet been determined. The overall aim of this study was to examine emotion dysregulation in adolescent inpatients with BPD compared with non-BPD inpatient adolescents and healthy non-clinical adolescents, taking into account both global emotion dysregulation deficits and more specific impairments. METHOD: The sample included 185 adolescent inpatients with BPD (M = 15.23, SD = 1.52), 367 non-BPD psychiatric inpatient adolescents (M = 15.37, SD = 1.40), and 146 healthy adolescents (M = 15.23, SD = 1.22), all of whom were between the ages of 12 and 17. Borderline personality features were assessed, along with emotion dysregulation and psychiatric severity. RESULTS: After controlling for age, gender, and psychiatric severity, results revealed that adolescents with BPD had higher overall emotional dysregulation compared with non-BPD psychiatric controls and healthy controls. These differences were apparent in only two domains of emotion dysregulation including limited access to emotion regulation strategies perceived as effective and impulse control difficulties when experiencing negative emotions. CONCLUSIONS: Findings suggest BPD-specific elevations on emotion dysregulation generally, and subscales related to behavioral regulation specifically.
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spelling pubmed-52234692017-01-11 The specificity of emotion dysregulation in adolescents with borderline personality disorder: comparison with psychiatric and healthy controls Ibraheim, Marina Kalpakci, Allison Sharp, Carla Borderline Personal Disord Emot Dysregul Research Article BACKGROUND: Research has supported the notion that emotion dysregulation is a core feature of BPD. However, given that this feature is typical of healthy adolescents as well as adolescents with other psychiatric disorders, the specificity of emotion dysregulation to BPD in this age group has not yet been determined. The overall aim of this study was to examine emotion dysregulation in adolescent inpatients with BPD compared with non-BPD inpatient adolescents and healthy non-clinical adolescents, taking into account both global emotion dysregulation deficits and more specific impairments. METHOD: The sample included 185 adolescent inpatients with BPD (M = 15.23, SD = 1.52), 367 non-BPD psychiatric inpatient adolescents (M = 15.37, SD = 1.40), and 146 healthy adolescents (M = 15.23, SD = 1.22), all of whom were between the ages of 12 and 17. Borderline personality features were assessed, along with emotion dysregulation and psychiatric severity. RESULTS: After controlling for age, gender, and psychiatric severity, results revealed that adolescents with BPD had higher overall emotional dysregulation compared with non-BPD psychiatric controls and healthy controls. These differences were apparent in only two domains of emotion dysregulation including limited access to emotion regulation strategies perceived as effective and impulse control difficulties when experiencing negative emotions. CONCLUSIONS: Findings suggest BPD-specific elevations on emotion dysregulation generally, and subscales related to behavioral regulation specifically. BioMed Central 2017-01-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5223469/ /pubmed/28078089 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40479-017-0052-x Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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The specificity of emotion dysregulation in adolescents with borderline personality disorder: comparison with psychiatric and healthy controls
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title_fullStr The specificity of emotion dysregulation in adolescents with borderline personality disorder: comparison with psychiatric and healthy controls
title_full_unstemmed The specificity of emotion dysregulation in adolescents with borderline personality disorder: comparison with psychiatric and healthy controls
title_short The specificity of emotion dysregulation in adolescents with borderline personality disorder: comparison with psychiatric and healthy controls
title_sort specificity of emotion dysregulation in adolescents with borderline personality disorder: comparison with psychiatric and healthy controls
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5223469/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28078089
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40479-017-0052-x
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