Don't praise me, don't chase me: Emotional reactivity to positive and negative social-evaluative videos in patients with borderline personality disorderShow others and affiliations
2017 (English)In: Journal of Personality Disorders, ISSN 0885-579X, E-ISSN 1943-2763, Vol. 31, no 1, p. 75-89Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Diagnostic criteria for borderline personality disorder (BPD) include interpersonal problems and high reactivity to negative social interactions. However, experimental studies on these symptoms are scarce, and it remains unclear whether reactivity is also altered in response to positive social interactions. To simulate such situations, the present study used videographic stimuli (E.Vids; Blechert, Schwitalla, & Wilhelm, 2013) in which actors express rejecting, neutral, or appreciating sentences. Twenty BPD patients and 20 healthy controls rated their emotional responses to these on pleasantness, arousal, and 11 specific emotions. In addition to elevated reactivity to negative E.Vids, patients with BPD showed marked reduction in pleasantness responses to positive E.Vids. Furthermore, they exhibited less pride, happiness, feelings of approval, and attraction/love in response to positive videos and more anger, anxiety, embarrassment, contempt, guilt, feelings of disapproval/rejection, and sadness to negative videos. Interestingly, BPD patients also reported negative emotions in response to positive videos. Implications for psychotherapy and research are discussed.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Guilford Publications , 2017. Vol. 31, no 1, p. 75-89
Keywords [en]
adolescent, adult, borderline state, emotion, female, human, human relation, male, middle aged, pathophysiology, perception, physiology, videorecording, young adult, Adolescent, Adult, Borderline Personality Disorder, Emotions, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Male, Middle Aged, Social Perception, Video Recording, Young Adult
National Category
Psychiatry
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-44515DOI: 10.1521/pedi_2016_30_238Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85014098715OAI: oai:DiVA.org:miun-44515DiVA, id: diva2:1642057
2022-03-032022-03-032022-03-03Bibliographically approved