Identity-related autobiographical memories and cultural life scripts in patients with Borderline Personality Disorder
Year: 2012
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Disturbed identity is one of the defining characteristics of Borderline Personality Disorder manifested in a broad spectrum of dysfunctions related to the self, including disturbances in meaning-generating self-narratives. Autobiographical memories are memories of personal events that provide crucial building-blocks in our construction of a life-story, self-concept, and a meaning-generating narrative identity. The cultural life script represents culturally shared expectations as to the order and timing of life events in a prototypical life course within a given culture. It is used to organize one's autobiographical memories. Here, 17 BPD-patients, 14 OCD-patients, and 23 non-clinical controls generated three important autobiographical memories and their conceptions of the cultural life script. BPD-patients reported substantially more negative memories, fewer of their memories were of prototypical life script events, their memory narratives were less coherent and more disoriented, and the overall typicality of their life scripts was lower as compared with the other two groups.
Source: Consciousness and Cognition
Authors: Carsten René Jørgensen, Dorthe Berntsen, Morten Bech, Morten Kjølbye, Birgit E. Bennedsen, Stine B. Ramsgaard
Institutions: Aarhus University, Aarhus University Hospital
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2120342005