Department of Psychology, American University.
Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University.
Personal Disord. 2024 Jan;15(1):74-83. doi: 10.1037/per0000642. Epub 2023 Oct 5.
The present study sought to examine the relation between borderline personality disorder (BPD) symptoms and empathic accuracy while improving on prior methodologies by using daily affect assessment in romantic partners. BPD symptoms were assessed in both members of 81 community couples who also reported on their own and their partner's negative and positive affect daily for 3 weeks. Data were analyzed using the Truth and Bias Model of Judgment, which allows the source of empathic accuracy to be parsed into partner affect (truth) and own affect (bias). Results provided evidence that individuals with higher BPD symptoms exhibited increased empathic accuracy for a partner's negative affect, particularly when partners also had higher BPD symptoms. The source of this accuracy stemmed more from bias forces than truth forces, indicating that participants' own affective states lead to more accurate judgments of partner affective state. The results suggest that this bias reduced the general tendency among participants to underestimate partner negative affect, thus leading to higher empathic accuracy. Overall, our results extend and provide support for previous research indicating that BPD symptoms are associated with heightened, not diminished, empathic accuracy. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
本研究旨在考察边缘型人格障碍（BPD）症状与共情准确性之间的关系，同时通过在浪漫伴侣中使用日常情感评估来改进先前的方法。在 81 对社区夫妇的双方成员中评估了 BPD 症状，这些夫妇还报告了他们自己和伴侣的负面和积极情绪，为期 3 周。使用判断的真相和偏差模型分析了数据，该模型允许将共情准确性的来源解析为伴侣的情感（真相）和自己的情感（偏差）。结果表明，具有较高 BPD 症状的个体对伴侣的负面情绪表现出更高的共情准确性，特别是当伴侣也具有较高 BPD 症状时。这种准确性的来源更多地来自偏差力而不是真实力，表明参与者自己的情感状态导致更准确地判断伴侣的情感状态。结果表明，这种偏差减少了参与者低估伴侣负面情绪的一般趋势，从而导致更高的共情准确性。总体而言，我们的结果扩展并支持了先前的研究，表明 BPD 症状与增强而不是减弱的共情准确性有关。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2024 APA，保留所有权利）。
