Effect of negative valence on assessment of self-relevance in female patients with borderline personality disorder

Pegah Sarkheil, Niko Goik, Camellia N Ibrahim and Frank Schneider

PLOS ONE, 2019, vol. 14, issue 1, 1-11

Abstract: Background: A disturbed self-image is central to the characteristic symptoms of borderline personality disorder (BPD). Evaluations of self-relevance (SR) are highly important in cognitive and emotional processing of information and adaptive behavior. Method: In the current study, we used affective statements to investigate if SR is altered in patients with higher scores on Borderline Symptom List (BSL-95). Forthyfemale adults with BPD and 20 healthy participants assessed a set of stimuli consisting of sentences in third-person for relevance to self. Results: BPD patients exhibited a higher SR for negative contents as compared to healthy controls (p

Date: 2019
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