The study aimed to investigate the relationship between self-compassion, perceived social support, and Self-esteem with borderline personality symptoms mediated by aloneness and hopelessness.
Nasim Rezaie +2 more
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Mixed methods evaluation of an educational intervention to change mental health nurses' attitudes to people diagnosed with borderline personality disorder [PDF]
Aims and objectives: To evaluate and explore mental health nurses’ responses to and experience of an educational intervention to improve attitudes towards people with a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder.
Dickens, Geoffrey L. +4 more
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This study used mediation analyses to examine the assumption that the presence of borderline personality features mediates the relationship between rejection sensitivity (RS), self-compassion, and aggressive behavior.
Eliane Sommerfeld, Mally Shechory Bitton
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The buffer role of meaning in life in hopelessness in women with borderline personality disorders [PDF]
Meaning in life has been found to be a protective factor against suicidal ideation. The aim of this study was to investigate whether meaning in life can moderate and buffer the association between suicide risk factors and hopelessness in women with ...
Botella, Cristina +2 more
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Background There is insufficient evidence to support the pharmacological treatment of borderline personality disorder. However, previous out-patient cohorts have described high rates of polypharmacy in this group.
Matthew Tennant +3 more
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Self-other model in the context of life narratives of women with trait of borderline personality disorder: A qualitative study [PDF]
Background: Disturbance relationships are among the main problems of people with traits of borderline personality disorder. An unpleasant parent-child relationship leads to a lack of stability sense, differentiation, and self-other disturbance.
Akram Ahangi +3 more
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Examining the Psychopathology of Incarcerated Male Firesetters using the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III [PDF]
Research to date has been equivocal on the relationship between firesetting and psychopathology, and has been impeded by studies lacking adequate control samples.
American Psychiatric Association +20 more
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From categorical diagnosis to dimensional assessment of borderline personality
Recent research suggested that personality disorders could be diagnosed as a continuous phenomenon. Therefore, in our study we examined whether the dimensional model of pathological personality traits could be applied to the assessment of borderline ...
Izabela Huczewska +2 more
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Borderline experience: madness, mimicry and Scottish gothic [PDF]
This essay draws on Julia Kristeva's concept of 'borderline' experience, a feature of psychotic discourse, to examine the representation of madness, split personality and sociopathic behaviour in James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a ...
Brewster, S
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Fostering Self-Compassion and Loving-Kindness in Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder: A Randomized Pilot Study [PDF]
The aim of this randomized pilot study is to investigate the effects of a short training programme in loving-kindness and compassion meditation (LKM/CM) in patients with borderline personality disorder.
Barrachina +58 more
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