the purpose of this study was to determine the factors and facets of five factor model in people with borderline and schizotypal personality traits.190 kharazmi university students completed three questionnaires: goldberg inventory, borderline personality inventory (bpi) and schizotypal personality questionnaire-brief (spq-b). participants, according to cut off points of borderline personality ...

aim and background: cognitive investigations of emotional disorders proposed that cognitive biases have at least a role as maintenance factors in psychopathology. this study aimed to compare the styles of attribution in a group of students with borderline personality traits and a normal group. methods and materials: this was a cross-sectional survey. through stratified random sampling, 330 stud...

Mentalization-based treatment (MBT) is an evidence-based treatment for adults suffering from borderline personality disorder. Different adaptations of MBT for adolescents have been described, but almost none of these have been systematically evaluated so far. This article presents pilot data from a feasibility study of an adaptation of inpatient MBT for adolescents with borderline symptoms (MBT...

OBJECTIVE Personality disorders are common in symptomatic eating disorders subjects. Because personality symptoms could be exaggerated by malnutrition or Axis I disorders, we studied women who had recovered from eating disorders for at least 1 year to see if personality disorder symptoms persisted in the well state. METHOD Personality disorders were evaluated in 10 women recovered from anorex...

BACKGROUND Recently, the nature of personality disorders and their relationship with normal personality traits has received extensive attention. The five-factor model (FFM) of personality, consisting of the personality traits neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness, is one of the proposed models to conceptualize personality disorders as maladaptiv...

BACKGROUND Patients with borderline personality disorder often are found and treated in psychiatric settings following episodes of self-mutilation, such as wrist-slashing. Family physicians care for many patients with borderline personality disorder, but in primary care settings wrist-slashing or other physical mutilation is a less common presenting problem. Frequently these patients complain o...

objective: borderline personality disorder is one of the most complex and prevalent personality disorders. many variables have so far been studied in relation to this disorder. this study aimed to investigate the role of emotion regulation, attachment styles, and theory of mind in predicting the traits of borderline personality disorder. method: in this study, 85 patients with borderline person...

Although the 5-factor model (FFM) has been advocated as an alternative to representing the construct of borderline personality, some argue that this diagnosis carries essential information that is not well captured by the FFM. The present study examined antecedent, concurrent, and predictive markers of construct validity in a sample of 362 patients with personality disorders. The results indica...