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Borderline Personality Traits and Emotion Regulation Strategies in Adolescents: The Role of Implicit Theories

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is associated with emotion dysregulation. The emotion regulation strategies people adopt may depend on one’s belief about emotion as either fixed or changeable (termed “implicit theory”). We test this experimentally by modifying beliefs about emotions using virt...

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Autores principales: McLachlan, Jane, Mehdikhani, Mani, Larham, Beth, Centifanti, Luna C. Muñoz
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Publicado: Springer US 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9470600/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33914216
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10578-021-01169-8
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author McLachlan, Jane
Mehdikhani, Mani
Larham, Beth
Centifanti, Luna C. Muñoz
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description Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is associated with emotion dysregulation. The emotion regulation strategies people adopt may depend on one’s belief about emotion as either fixed or changeable (termed “implicit theory”). We test this experimentally by modifying beliefs about emotions using virtual reality (VR). A sample of 29 adolescents (ages 14–17 years) were recruited from two adolescent inpatient units for an uncontrolled pilot trial of a new brief intervention. We measured BPD traits, beliefs about emotion, treatment preference, cognitive reappraisal and rumination, before the VR game and 14–31 days later. Adolescents with higher levels of BPD traits endorsed fixed beliefs of emotion and reported higher levels of rumination and lower levels of cognitive reappraisal. After a one-time message delivered via VR, adolescents evidenced an increase in belief that their emotions were changeable. These findings suggest beliefs about emotions may have an important role in interventions for adolescents with BPD traits. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version of this article (10.1007/s10578-021-01169-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-94706002022-09-15 Borderline Personality Traits and Emotion Regulation Strategies in Adolescents: The Role of Implicit Theories McLachlan, Jane Mehdikhani, Mani Larham, Beth Centifanti, Luna C. Muñoz Child Psychiatry Hum Dev Original Article Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is associated with emotion dysregulation. The emotion regulation strategies people adopt may depend on one’s belief about emotion as either fixed or changeable (termed “implicit theory”). We test this experimentally by modifying beliefs about emotions using virtual reality (VR). A sample of 29 adolescents (ages 14–17 years) were recruited from two adolescent inpatient units for an uncontrolled pilot trial of a new brief intervention. We measured BPD traits, beliefs about emotion, treatment preference, cognitive reappraisal and rumination, before the VR game and 14–31 days later. Adolescents with higher levels of BPD traits endorsed fixed beliefs of emotion and reported higher levels of rumination and lower levels of cognitive reappraisal. After a one-time message delivered via VR, adolescents evidenced an increase in belief that their emotions were changeable. These findings suggest beliefs about emotions may have an important role in interventions for adolescents with BPD traits. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version of this article (10.1007/s10578-021-01169-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer US 2021-04-29 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9470600/ /pubmed/33914216 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10578-021-01169-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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