Experiential avoidance in participants with borderline personality disorder and other personality disorders
Abstract Background The present study has descriptive and predictive aims. The descriptive aims were to determine if participants with borderline personality disorder (BPD) reported higher levels of experiential avoidance (EA) than participants with other personality disorders (OPD) as well as deter...
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| author | Tess C. Gecha Isabel V. Glass Frances R. Frankenburg Carla Sharp Mary C. Zanarini |
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| description | Abstract Background The present study has descriptive and predictive aims. The descriptive aims were to determine if participants with borderline personality disorder (BPD) reported higher levels of experiential avoidance (EA) than participants with other personality disorders (OPD) as well as determine if non-recovered participants with BPD reported higher levels of EA than participants with BPD who have recovered symptomatically and psychosocially. The predictive aim was to determine if the level of EA reported by participants with BPD was predicted by the severity of aspects of childhood or adult adversity and/or aspects of temperament. Methods The Overall Anxiety Severity and Impairment Scale (OASIS) was administered to 248 participants at 24-year follow-up in the McLean Study of Adult Development (MSAD). Adversity and temperament were assessed during index admission using interviews (Revised Childhood Experience Questionnaire [CEQ-R], Adult History Interview [AHI], and the NEO-FFI self-report measure). Results Participants with BPD reported significantly higher levels of EA than those with OPD. Within the BPD group, non-recovered participants reported significantly higher levels of EA than recovered participants. Severity of childhood sexual abuse and lower levels of extraversion were found to be significant multivariate predictors of levels of EA in those with BPD. Conclusions Taken together, these results suggest that EA is a serious problem for participants with BPD, particularly those who have not recovered. They also suggest that both the severity of childhood adversity and a temperament marked by lower levels of extroversion are significantly related to levels of EA reported by participants with BPD. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c7f4b7bc7f054273aae5d9c5961e33b72024-03-05T17:43:52ZengBMCBorderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation2051-66732024-03-011111810.1186/s40479-024-00248-1Experiential avoidance in participants with borderline personality disorder and other personality disordersTess C. Gecha0Isabel V. Glass1Frances R. Frankenburg2Carla Sharp3Mary C. Zanarini4University of HoustonMcLean HospitalEdith Nourse Rogers Veterans Administration HospitalUniversity of HoustonMcLean HospitalAbstract Background The present study has descriptive and predictive aims. The descriptive aims were to determine if participants with borderline personality disorder (BPD) reported higher levels of experiential avoidance (EA) than participants with other personality disorders (OPD) as well as determine if non-recovered participants with BPD reported higher levels of EA than participants with BPD who have recovered symptomatically and psychosocially. The predictive aim was to determine if the level of EA reported by participants with BPD was predicted by the severity of aspects of childhood or adult adversity and/or aspects of temperament. Methods The Overall Anxiety Severity and Impairment Scale (OASIS) was administered to 248 participants at 24-year follow-up in the McLean Study of Adult Development (MSAD). Adversity and temperament were assessed during index admission using interviews (Revised Childhood Experience Questionnaire [CEQ-R], Adult History Interview [AHI], and the NEO-FFI self-report measure). Results Participants with BPD reported significantly higher levels of EA than those with OPD. Within the BPD group, non-recovered participants reported significantly higher levels of EA than recovered participants. Severity of childhood sexual abuse and lower levels of extraversion were found to be significant multivariate predictors of levels of EA in those with BPD. Conclusions Taken together, these results suggest that EA is a serious problem for participants with BPD, particularly those who have not recovered. They also suggest that both the severity of childhood adversity and a temperament marked by lower levels of extroversion are significantly related to levels of EA reported by participants with BPD.https://doi.org/10.1186/s40479-024-00248-1Borderline personality disorderExperiential avoidanceOther personality disorderChildhood adversityAdult adversityTemperament |
| spellingShingle | Tess C. Gecha Isabel V. Glass Frances R. Frankenburg Carla Sharp Mary C. Zanarini Experiential avoidance in participants with borderline personality disorder and other personality disorders Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation Borderline personality disorder Experiential avoidance Other personality disorder Childhood adversity Adult adversity Temperament |
| title | Experiential avoidance in participants with borderline personality disorder and other personality disorders |
| title_full | Experiential avoidance in participants with borderline personality disorder and other personality disorders |
| title_fullStr | Experiential avoidance in participants with borderline personality disorder and other personality disorders |
| title_full_unstemmed | Experiential avoidance in participants with borderline personality disorder and other personality disorders |
| title_short | Experiential avoidance in participants with borderline personality disorder and other personality disorders |
| title_sort | experiential avoidance in participants with borderline personality disorder and other personality disorders |
| topic | Borderline personality disorder Experiential avoidance Other personality disorder Childhood adversity Adult adversity Temperament |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1186/s40479-024-00248-1 |
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