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- Title
Reward and Punishment Sensitivity in Borderline and Avoidant Personality Disorders.
- Authors
Berenson, Kathy R.; Van De Weert, Sarah M.; Nicolaou, Stella; Campoverde, Cindy; Rafaeli, Eshkol; Downey, Geraldine
- Abstract
The authors compared self-reported and behavioral responses to reward and punishment in individuals diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) or avoidant personality disorder (APD) relative to a healthy comparison (HC) group. As predicted, self-reported sensitivity to reward was significantly higher in the BPD group than in the APD and HC groups. Also as predicted, self-reported sensitivity to punishment was significantly elevated in both disordered groups but significantly higher in APD than in BPD. These hypothesized patterns were also evident in responses to behavioral tasks: Participants with BPD made more errors of commission and fewer errors of omission than HC participants on a passive avoidance learning task, and participants with APD showed greater reactivity to losses than other participants on a probabilistic reversal learning task. Results help characterize differences between these two disorders.
- Subjects
CONFIDENCE intervals; BORDERLINE personality disorder; SELF-evaluation; LEARNING strategies; PUNISHMENT; REWARD (Psychology); DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ODDS ratio; AVOIDANT personality disorder
- Publication
Journal of Personality Disorders, 2021, Vol 35, Issue 4, p573
- ISSN
0885-579X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1521/pedi_2020_34_475