Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, USA.
Personal Disord. 2012 Apr;3(2):127-39. doi: 10.1037/a0024134. Epub 2011 Jul 4.
Evidence suggests that the combination of the interpersonal-affective (F1) and impulsive-antisocial (F2) features of psychopathy may be associated with borderline personality disorder (BPD), specifically among women (e.g., Coid, 1993; Hicks, Vaidyanathan, & Patrick, 2010). However, empirical research explicitly examining gendered relationships between BPD and psychopathy factors is lacking. To further inform this area of research, we investigated the hypothesis that the interplay between the two psychopathy factors is associated with BPD among women across two studies. Study 1 consisted of a college sample of 318 adults (51% women), and Study 2 consisted of a large sample of 488 female prisoners. The interpersonal-affective (F1) and impulsive-antisocial psychopathy (F2) scores, measured with self-report and clinician-rated indices, respectively, were entered as explanatory variables in regression analyses to investigate their unique contributions to BPD traits. Across two independent samples, results indicated that the interaction of high F1 and F2 psychopathy scores was associated with BPD in women. This association was found to be specific to women in Study 1. These results suggest that BPD and psychopathy, at least as they are measured by current instruments, overlap in women and, accordingly, may reflect gender-differentiated phenotypic expressions of similar dispositional vulnerabilities.
有证据表明，精神变态的人际情感（F1）和冲动反社会（F2）特征的组合可能与边缘型人格障碍（BPD）有关，特别是在女性中（例如，Coid，1993；Hicks，Vaidyanathan 和 Patrick，2010）。然而，明确检查 BPD 和精神变态因素之间性别关系的实证研究是缺乏的。为了进一步阐明这一研究领域，我们研究了这样一种假设，即两个精神变态因素之间的相互作用与女性 BPD 之间存在关联。在两项研究中，我们调查了两个研究的假设，即两个精神变态因素之间的相互作用与女性 BPD 之间存在关联。研究 1 由 318 名成年人（51%为女性）组成的大学生样本组成，研究 2 由 488 名女性囚犯组成的大样本组成。人际情感（F1）和冲动反社会精神变态（F2）得分，分别通过自我报告和临床医生评定指数进行测量，作为回归分析中的解释变量，以研究它们对 BPD 特征的独特贡献。在两个独立的样本中，结果表明，高 F1 和 F2 精神变态得分的相互作用与女性 BPD 有关。在研究 1 中，发现这种关联仅存在于女性中。这些结果表明，BPD 和精神变态，至少在目前的仪器测量中，在女性中存在重叠，因此，可能反映了类似性格脆弱性的性别差异的表型表达。
