TY - JOUR
T1 - Using negative emotions to trace the experience of borderline personality pathology
T2 - Interconnected relationships revealed in an experience sampling study
AU - Law, Mary Kate
AU - Fleeson, William
AU - Arnold, Elizabeth Mayfield
AU - Michael Furr, R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 The Guilford Press.
PY - 2016/2
Y1 - 2016/2
N2 - While emotional difficulties are highly implicated in borderline personality disorder (BPD), the dynamic relationships between emotions and BPD symptoms that occur in everyday life are unknown. The current paper examined the function of negative emotions as they relate to BPD symptoms in real time. Experience sampling methodology with 281 participants measured negative emotions and borderline symptoms, expressed as a spectrum of experiences, five times daily for two weeks. Overall, having a BDP diagnosis was associated with experiencing more negative emotions. Multilevel modeling supported positive concurrent relationships between negative emotions and BPD symptoms. Lagged models showed that even after 3 hours negative emotions and several symptoms continued to influence each other. Therefore, results indicated that negative emotions and BPD symptoms are intricately related; some evidenced long-lasting relationships. This research supports emotion-symptom contingencies within BPD and provides insight regarding the reactivity and functionality of negative emotions in borderline pathology.
AB - While emotional difficulties are highly implicated in borderline personality disorder (BPD), the dynamic relationships between emotions and BPD symptoms that occur in everyday life are unknown. The current paper examined the function of negative emotions as they relate to BPD symptoms in real time. Experience sampling methodology with 281 participants measured negative emotions and borderline symptoms, expressed as a spectrum of experiences, five times daily for two weeks. Overall, having a BDP diagnosis was associated with experiencing more negative emotions. Multilevel modeling supported positive concurrent relationships between negative emotions and BPD symptoms. Lagged models showed that even after 3 hours negative emotions and several symptoms continued to influence each other. Therefore, results indicated that negative emotions and BPD symptoms are intricately related; some evidenced long-lasting relationships. This research supports emotion-symptom contingencies within BPD and provides insight regarding the reactivity and functionality of negative emotions in borderline pathology.
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U2 - 10.1521/pedi_2015_29_180
DO - 10.1521/pedi_2015_29_180
M3 - Article
C2 - 25710731
AN - SCOPUS:84956904756
SN - 0885-579X
VL - 30
SP - 52
EP - 70
JO - Journal of Personality Disorders
JF - Journal of Personality Disorders
IS - 1
ER -