Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.
Institute of Psychology, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary.
PLoS One. 2021 Mar 17;16(3):e0248409. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0248409. eCollection 2021.
Emotion regulation difficulties are a major characteristic of personality disorders. Our study investigated emotion regulation difficulties that are characteristic of borderline personality disorder (BPD), compared to a healthy control group.
Patients with BPD (N = 59) and healthy participants (N = 70) filled out four self-report questionnaires (Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire, Self-Compassion Scale) that measured the presence or lack of different emotion-regulation strategies. Differences between the BPD and the healthy control group were investigated by Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) and univariate post-hoc F-test statistics.
People suffering from BPD had statistically significantly (p<0.05) higher levels of emotional dysregulation and used more maladaptive emotion-regulation strategies, as well as lower levels of mindfulness and self-compassion compared to the HC group.
In comparison to a healthy control group, BPD patients show deficits in the following areas: mindfulness, self-compassion and adaptive emotion-regulation strategies. Based on these results, we suggest that teaching emotion-regulation, mindfulness, and self-compassion skills to patients can be crucial in the treatment of borderline personality disorder.
情绪调节困难是人格障碍的一个主要特征。我们的研究调查了边缘型人格障碍（BPD）患者特有的情绪调节困难，并与健康对照组进行了比较。
BPD 患者（N=59）和健康参与者（N=70）填写了四个自我报告问卷（认知情绪调节问卷、情绪调节困难量表、五因素正念量表、自我同情量表），这些问卷衡量了不同情绪调节策略的存在或缺乏。采用多元方差分析（MANOVA）和单变量事后 F 检验统计对 BPD 组和健康对照组之间的差异进行了研究。
与健康对照组相比，患有 BPD 的人在情绪失调方面存在统计学上显著差异（p<0.05），且更倾向于使用适应性较差的情绪调节策略，同时他们的正念和自我同情水平也较低。
与健康对照组相比，BPD 患者在正念、自我同情和适应性情绪调节策略方面存在缺陷。基于这些结果，我们建议向患者教授情绪调节、正念和自我同情技能在治疗边缘型人格障碍方面至关重要。
