1. Borderline personality features and harmful dysregulated behavior: the mediational effect of mindfulness.
- Author
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Wupperman P, Fickling M, Klemanski DH, Berking M, and Whitman JB
- Subjects
- Adult, Borderline Personality Disorder epidemiology, Comorbidity, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Pilot Projects, Self-Injurious Behavior epidemiology, Stress, Psychological psychology, Awareness physiology, Borderline Personality Disorder psychology, Mindfulness, Self-Injurious Behavior psychology
- Abstract
Objectives: The current preliminary study investigated whether deficits in mindfulness (awareness, attentiveness, and acceptance of the present experience) may underlie the relationship of borderline personality disorder (BPD) features to self-injury and overall acts of harmful dysregulated behavior., Method: Nonparametric bootstrapping procedures were used to examine theoretical relationships among variables in a psychiatric sample of adults (N = 70). Participants were asked to imagine themselves in distress-inducing situations and then write what they would actually do to decrease distress in such situations., Results: As hypothesized, mindfulness statistically mediated the relationship of BPD features to reported acts of (a) self-injury and (b) overall harmful dysregulated behaviors., Conclusions: Difficulties in the ability to be aware, attentive, and accepting of ongoing experience may play a role in the relationship of BPD features to harmful dysregulated behaviors. Future research should clarify potential reciprocal effects between BPD features and mindfulness with prospective, multioccasion designs., (© 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.)
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- 2013
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