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Don't Make Me Angry: Frustration-Induced Anger and Its Link to Aggression in Women With Borderline Personality Disorder

Aggression is a prominent interpersonal dysfunction of individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD). In BPD aggression is predominantly reactive in nature, often triggered by frustration, provocation, or social threat and is associated with intense anger and an inability to regulate this s...

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Autores principales: Bertsch, Katja, Back, Sarah, Flechsenhar, Aleya, Neukel, Corinne, Krauch, Marlene, Spieß, Karen, Panizza, Angelika, Herpertz, Sabine C.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8195331/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34122197
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.695062
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author Bertsch, Katja
Back, Sarah
Flechsenhar, Aleya
Neukel, Corinne
Krauch, Marlene
Spieß, Karen
Panizza, Angelika
Herpertz, Sabine C.
author_facet Bertsch, Katja
Back, Sarah
Flechsenhar, Aleya
Neukel, Corinne
Krauch, Marlene
Spieß, Karen
Panizza, Angelika
Herpertz, Sabine C.
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description Aggression is a prominent interpersonal dysfunction of individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD). In BPD aggression is predominantly reactive in nature, often triggered by frustration, provocation, or social threat and is associated with intense anger and an inability to regulate this strong, negative emotion. Building on previous research, we were interested in investigating negative emotionality in general and anger in particular in women with BPD before and after frustration induction. To achieve this, 60 medication-free women with BPD and 32 healthy women rated the intensity of negative emotions (angry, frustrated, upset, embarrassed, nervous) before and after performing a Titrated Mirror Tracing Task, which reliably induces frustration and distress. As expected, women with BPD reported significantly greater intensity of negative emotions before and after frustration than healthy women. Specifically, they showed a significantly stronger frustration-induced increase in anger, while other negative emotions remained unaffected by frustration induction. This anger increase was significantly related to aggressive behavior reported in the 2 weeks prior to the experiment, as well as to the level of frustration experienced in the experiment itself, but not with emotion dysregulation. The current data confirm the important role of frustration-induced anger independent of emotion dysregulation in BPD, in particular with regard to aggression, a prominent interpersonal dysfunction of this disorder. These findings underline the importance of interventions with particular focus on anger.
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spelling pubmed-81953312021-06-12 Don't Make Me Angry: Frustration-Induced Anger and Its Link to Aggression in Women With Borderline Personality Disorder Bertsch, Katja Back, Sarah Flechsenhar, Aleya Neukel, Corinne Krauch, Marlene Spieß, Karen Panizza, Angelika Herpertz, Sabine C. Front Psychiatry Psychiatry Aggression is a prominent interpersonal dysfunction of individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD). In BPD aggression is predominantly reactive in nature, often triggered by frustration, provocation, or social threat and is associated with intense anger and an inability to regulate this strong, negative emotion. Building on previous research, we were interested in investigating negative emotionality in general and anger in particular in women with BPD before and after frustration induction. To achieve this, 60 medication-free women with BPD and 32 healthy women rated the intensity of negative emotions (angry, frustrated, upset, embarrassed, nervous) before and after performing a Titrated Mirror Tracing Task, which reliably induces frustration and distress. As expected, women with BPD reported significantly greater intensity of negative emotions before and after frustration than healthy women. Specifically, they showed a significantly stronger frustration-induced increase in anger, while other negative emotions remained unaffected by frustration induction. This anger increase was significantly related to aggressive behavior reported in the 2 weeks prior to the experiment, as well as to the level of frustration experienced in the experiment itself, but not with emotion dysregulation. The current data confirm the important role of frustration-induced anger independent of emotion dysregulation in BPD, in particular with regard to aggression, a prominent interpersonal dysfunction of this disorder. These findings underline the importance of interventions with particular focus on anger. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-05-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8195331/ /pubmed/34122197 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.695062 Text en Copyright © 2021 Bertsch, Back, Flechsenhar, Neukel, Krauch, Spieß, Panizza and Herpertz. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Back, Sarah
Flechsenhar, Aleya
Neukel, Corinne
Krauch, Marlene
Spieß, Karen
Panizza, Angelika
Herpertz, Sabine C.
Don't Make Me Angry: Frustration-Induced Anger and Its Link to Aggression in Women With Borderline Personality Disorder
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title_short Don't Make Me Angry: Frustration-Induced Anger and Its Link to Aggression in Women With Borderline Personality Disorder
title_sort don't make me angry: frustration-induced anger and its link to aggression in women with borderline personality disorder
topic Psychiatry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8195331/
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