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Emotional reactivity to appraisals in patients with a borderline personality disorder: a daily life study.
Houben, Marlies; Claes, Laurence; Sleuwaegen, Ellen; Berens, Ann; Vansteelandt, Kristof.
Afiliação
  • Houben M; 1Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, Tiensestraat 102, Box 3713, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
  • Claes L; 1Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, Tiensestraat 102, Box 3713, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
  • Sleuwaegen E; 2Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium.
  • Berens A; 2Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Wilrijk, Belgium.
  • Vansteelandt K; 3University Department of Psychiatry, Campus Psychiatric Hospital Duffel, Stationsstraat 22c, 2570 Duffel, Belgium.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30459949
BACKGROUND: Emotional instability, consisting of patterns of strong emotional changes over time, has consistently been demonstrated in daily life of patients with a borderline personality disorder (BPD). Yet, little empirical work has examined emotional changes that occur specifically in response to emotional triggers in daily life, so-called emotional reactivity. The goal of this study was to examine emotional reactivity in response to general emotional appraisals (i.e. goal congruence or valence, goal relevance or importance, and emotion-focused coping potential) and BPD-specific evaluations (trust and disappointment in self and others) in daily life of inpatients with BPD. METHODS: Thirty inpatients with BPD and 28 healthy controls participated in an experience sampling study and repeatedly rated the intensity of their current emotions, emotional appraisals, and evaluations of trust and disappointment in self and others. RESULTS: Results showed that the BPD group exhibited stronger emotional reactivity in terms of negative affect than healthy controls, however only in response to disappointment in someone else. BPD patients also showed weaker reactivity in positive affect in response to the appraised importance of a situation; the more a situation was appraised as important, the higher the subsequent positive affect for healthy controls only, not the patient group. CONCLUSIONS: These findings show that appraisals can trigger strong emotional reactions in BPD patients, and suggest that altered emotional reactivity might be a potential underlying process of emotional instability in the daily life.
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Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2018 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Base de dados: MEDLINE Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2018 Tipo de documento: Article