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Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents: Affective and Cognitive Features

Year: 1996

Type: article

Abstract: OBJECTIVE: To examine systematically the affective and cognitive features of borderline personality disorder (BPD) in adolescence, using standardized measures of these constructs and controlling for depression. METHOD: Nineteen depressed female adolescents with BPD were compared with 21 non-BPD depressed inpatients on measures of affect and cognitive style. RESULTS: Both BPD and non-BPD adolescents endorsed significantly elevated levels of self-reported depression, anger, anxiety, hopelessness, self-deprecatory attributional style, and external locus of control. Adolescents with BPD endorsed significantly poorer self-concept than their non-BPD peers; this difference was not an artifact of depressive severity. CONCLUSIONS: The findings indicate that adolescents with BPD experience significant impairments in self-concept, suggestive of pervasive emptiness and identity disturbance associated with BPD.

Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

DOI: 10.1097/00004583-199610000-00021

Authors: AUREEN PINTO, W. LEXINGTON GRAPENTINE, GRETA FRANCIS, CARLA M. PICARIELLO

Institutions: University of Rochester Medicine, University of Rochester

Language: English

Topic: Personality Disorders and Psychopathology

Subfield: Clinical Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,710