Department of Psychology, Gettysburg College.
Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University.
Personal Disord. 2018 Sep;9(5):447-457. doi: 10.1037/per0000279. Epub 2018 Feb 15.
Taking the bad with the good is a necessity of life, and people who readily integrate thoughts of their loved one's flaws with thoughts of their more positive attributes maintain more stable, satisfying relationships. Borderline personality disorder, however, is often characterized by interpersonal perceptions that fluctuate between extremes of good and bad. We used a timed judgment task to examine information processing about significant others in individuals high in borderline personality features relative to healthy individuals and those high in avoidant personality features. In Study 1, when judging traits of a liked significant other, same-valence facilitation by negative primes (judging negative traits faster than positive traits after a negative prime) was significantly stronger in the borderline features group than the other two groups, and was inversely associated with self-reports of integrated thoughts about significant others. In contrast, same-valence facilitation by positive primes (judging positive traits faster than negative traits after a positive prime) was significantly stronger in the avoidant features group than the other two groups, and inversely associated with self-esteem. No between-group differences in same-valence facilitation were statistically significant when participants judged traits of disliked significant others, liked foods, and disliked foods. In Study 2, same-valence facilitation by negative primes when judging traits of a liked significant other was significantly associated with less integrated positive/negative thoughts about that person in a 12-day diary. These results identify an implicit information-processing pattern relevant to interpersonal difficulties in borderline personality disorder. (PsycINFO Database Record
接受好坏两面是生活的必需，那些能够轻易将所爱之人的缺点与优点融合在一起的人，往往能维持更稳定、更满意的关系。然而，边缘型人格障碍的人际知觉通常在好坏极端之间波动。我们使用限时判断任务，来考察高边缘型人格特质个体相对于健康个体和高回避型人格特质个体对重要他人的信息加工。在研究 1 中，当判断喜欢的重要他人的特质时，与正性启动相比，负性启动对负性特质的判断速度（负性启动后判断负性特质比判断正性特质更快）在边缘型特质组显著更强，与对重要他人的整合性思维的自我报告呈负相关。相比之下，与正性启动相比，正性启动对正性特质的判断速度（正性启动后判断正性特质比判断负性特质更快）在回避型特质组显著更强，与自尊呈负相关。当参与者判断不喜欢的重要他人、喜欢的食物和不喜欢的食物的特质时，同值促进在各分组间没有显著差异。在研究 2 中，当判断喜欢的重要他人的特质时，负性启动的同值促进与对这个人的更整合的积极/消极思维显著相关。这些结果确定了与边缘型人格障碍人际困难相关的一种内隐信息处理模式。
