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Explicit and Implicit Measures of Identity Diffusion in Adolescent Girls With Borderline Personality Disorder

The present study is the first to examine both the implicit and explicit self-concept of identity diffusion in a sample of adolescent patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD). A clinical sample of adolescent girls with diagnosed BPD (N = 30; M age = 15.9 years) and a sample of girls with...

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Autores principales: Plakolm Erlač, Sara, Bucik, Valentin, Gregorič Kumperščak, Hojka
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8762200/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35046857
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.805390
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Bucik, Valentin
Gregorič Kumperščak, Hojka
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description The present study is the first to examine both the implicit and explicit self-concept of identity diffusion in a sample of adolescent patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD). A clinical sample of adolescent girls with diagnosed BPD (N = 30; M age = 15.9 years) and a sample of girls with a healthy personality development (N = 33; M age = 16.6 years) completed an implicit association test (IAT) that was adjusted to identity diffusion, the core of BPD. Common domains of child and adolescent psychopathology and core components of BPD were assessed using self-reports on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), the Borderline Personality Features Scale for Children—11 (BPFSC-11) and the Assessment of Identity Development in Adolescence (AIDA). BPD patients scored significantly higher on explicit measures of borderline pathology than girls with a healthy personality development. A crucial finding for this study was that girls with BPD had a significantly lower implicit preference for stability than their counterparts in the control group. Moreover, explicit measures of borderline personality pathology were significantly correlated with an implicit measure of identity diffusion, the core of BPD. However, when looking at the predictive ability of implicit and explicit measures, only explicit identity diffusion was significantly associated with borderline features. Our data suggests that adolescent girls with BPD differ from healthy individuals not only in their conscious representation but also in their implicit representation of the self with regard to BPD related characteristics, which further advances the need for the identification of at-risk adolescents.
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spelling pubmed-87622002022-01-18 Explicit and Implicit Measures of Identity Diffusion in Adolescent Girls With Borderline Personality Disorder Plakolm Erlač, Sara Bucik, Valentin Gregorič Kumperščak, Hojka Front Psychiatry Psychiatry The present study is the first to examine both the implicit and explicit self-concept of identity diffusion in a sample of adolescent patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD). A clinical sample of adolescent girls with diagnosed BPD (N = 30; M age = 15.9 years) and a sample of girls with a healthy personality development (N = 33; M age = 16.6 years) completed an implicit association test (IAT) that was adjusted to identity diffusion, the core of BPD. Common domains of child and adolescent psychopathology and core components of BPD were assessed using self-reports on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), the Borderline Personality Features Scale for Children—11 (BPFSC-11) and the Assessment of Identity Development in Adolescence (AIDA). BPD patients scored significantly higher on explicit measures of borderline pathology than girls with a healthy personality development. A crucial finding for this study was that girls with BPD had a significantly lower implicit preference for stability than their counterparts in the control group. Moreover, explicit measures of borderline personality pathology were significantly correlated with an implicit measure of identity diffusion, the core of BPD. However, when looking at the predictive ability of implicit and explicit measures, only explicit identity diffusion was significantly associated with borderline features. Our data suggests that adolescent girls with BPD differ from healthy individuals not only in their conscious representation but also in their implicit representation of the self with regard to BPD related characteristics, which further advances the need for the identification of at-risk adolescents. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-01-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8762200/ /pubmed/35046857 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.805390 Text en Copyright © 2022 Plakolm Erlač, Bucik and Gregorič Kumperščak. 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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Plakolm Erlač, Sara
Bucik, Valentin
Gregorič Kumperščak, Hojka
Explicit and Implicit Measures of Identity Diffusion in Adolescent Girls With Borderline Personality Disorder
title Explicit and Implicit Measures of Identity Diffusion in Adolescent Girls With Borderline Personality Disorder
title_full Explicit and Implicit Measures of Identity Diffusion in Adolescent Girls With Borderline Personality Disorder
title_fullStr Explicit and Implicit Measures of Identity Diffusion in Adolescent Girls With Borderline Personality Disorder
title_full_unstemmed Explicit and Implicit Measures of Identity Diffusion in Adolescent Girls With Borderline Personality Disorder
title_short Explicit and Implicit Measures of Identity Diffusion in Adolescent Girls With Borderline Personality Disorder
title_sort explicit and implicit measures of identity diffusion in adolescent girls with borderline personality disorder
topic Psychiatry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8762200/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35046857
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.805390
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