Eisenlohr-Moul Tory, Peters Jessica R, Chamberlain Kaitlyn D, Rodriguez Marcus
University of Kentucky, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
University of Kentucky, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
J Psychopathol Behav Assess. 2016 Mar;38(1):149-157. doi: 10.1007/s10862-015-9505-y. Epub 2015 Aug 11.
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) features have been linked to deficits in mindfulness, or nonjudgmental attention to present-moment stimuli. However, no previous work has examined the role of fluctuations in mindfulness over time in predicting BPD features. The present study examines the impact of both and in mindfulness.
40 women recruited to achieve a flat distribution of BPD features completed 4 weekly assessments of mindfulness (Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire; FFMQ) and BPD features. Multilevel models predicted each outcome from both 1) a person's average levels of each facet and 2) weekly deviations from a person's average for each facet.
Average acting with awareness, nonjudging, and nonreactivity predicted lower BPD features at the between-person level, and weekly deviations above one's average (i.e., higher-than-usual) nonjudging predicted lower BPD feature expression at the within-person level.
Within-person fluctuations in the nonjudging facet of mindfulness may be relevant to the daily expression of BPD features over and above dispositional mindfulness.
边缘型人格障碍(BPD)的特征与正念缺失有关,正念即对当下刺激的非评判性关注。然而,此前尚无研究探讨正念随时间波动在预测BPD特征方面的作用。本研究考察了正念的稳定性和波动性的影响。
招募了40名具有均匀分布BPD特征的女性,她们完成了为期4周的正念(五因素正念问卷;FFMQ)和BPD特征评估。多水平模型从以下两方面预测每个结果:1)个体在每个维度上的平均水平;2)个体在每个维度上每周与其平均水平的偏差。
在个体间水平上,平均的有意识行动、非评判和非反应性预测了较低的BPD特征,在个体内水平上,每周高于自身平均水平(即高于平常)的非评判性偏差预测了较低的BPD特征表达。
正念的非评判维度在个体内的波动可能与BPD特征的日常表现有关,这超出了特质正念的范畴。