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- Title
EMOTIONAL REGULATION AND BODILY SENSATION: INTEROCEPTIVE AWARENESS IS INTACT IN BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER.
- Authors
Hart, Nova; McGowan, John; Minati, Ludovico; Critchley, Hugo D.
- Abstract
Emotional dysregulation is a core component of borderline personality disorder (BPD). Theoretical models suggest that deficits in labeling physiological sensations of emotion contribute to affective instability in BPD. Interoceptive awareness refers to the ability to perceive changes in internal bodily states, and is linked to the subjective experience and control of emotions. The authors tested whether differences in intero-ceptive awareness accounted for emotional instability in BPD. Patients diagnosed with BPD (n = 24) were compared to healthy controls (n = 30) on two established measures of interoceptive awareness, a heartbeat perception task and a heartbeat monitoring task. Contrary to their hy-pothesis, the authors observed no significant differences in objective measures of interoceptive awareness. Their findings provide strong evi-dence against the notion that difficulties in emotional regulation in BPD are connected to differences in interoceptive awareness.
- Subjects
BORDERLINE personality disorder; STATISTICAL correlation; EMOTIONS; STATISTICAL sampling; STATISTICAL hypothesis testing; T-test (Statistics); U-statistics; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Journal of Personality Disorders, 2013, Vol 27, Issue 4, p506
- ISSN
0885-579X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1521/pedi_2012_26_049