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- Title
Effortful Control, Rejection Sensitivity, and Borderline Personality Disorder Features in Adulthood.
- Authors
De Panfilis, Chiara; Meehan, Kevin B.; Cain, Nicole M.; Clarkin, John F.
- Abstract
This investigation examined the moderating role of effortful control (EC) in the association between rejection sensitivity (RS) and its subsequent interpersonal distress (IP-distress) on borderline personality disorder (BPD) features. In total, 625 multicultural undergraduates (Study 1) and 562 community international adults (Study 2) completed scales evaluating EC, RS, IP-distress, and BPD features; Study 2 participants also self-reported both anxious and angry expectations of rejection. In both samples, EC moderated the mediating effect of IP-distress in the link between RS and BPD-related psychopathology. The extent to which RS was associated with BPD symptoms through increased IP-distress was greater for individuals with low EC and less so for those with high EC. Thus, low self-regulatory abilities may foster the association between RS and BPD by magnifying interpersonal distress. The implications and limitations of findings are discussed.
- Subjects
CONTROL (Psychology); AGE distribution; ANGER; ANXIETY; BORDERLINE personality disorder; CHI-squared test; CONFIDENCE intervals; STATISTICAL correlation; INTERPERSONAL relations; PROBABILITY theory; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF-evaluation; SELF-management (Psychology); SEX distribution; T-test (Statistics); CROSS-sectional method; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Journal of Personality Disorders, 2016, Vol 30, Issue 5, p595
- ISSN
0885-579X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1521/pedi_2015_29_226