Identifying core deficits in a dimensional model of Borderline Personality Disorder features: A network analysis.

ABSTRACT: Researchers have proposed three core deficits of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD): emotion dysregulation, interpersonal problems, and self-identity disturbance. Previous methods for testing these deficits rest on problematic assumptions (e.g., the assumption that observable/measured features of BPD, such as chaotic relationships and affective intensity, occur independently). A network model of psychopathology assumes that observable features of disorders directly interact, and network analytic methods quantify how central each feature is. We conducted a network analysis of core deficits of BPD features using a large (n = 4386) sample of participants with a range of BPD features. The most central features of participants in the High BPD group were loneliness, recklessness/impuls

SUBMITTER: Southward MW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6402351 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature