Negative evaluation bias for positive self-referential information in borderline personality disorder

• Verfasst von: Winter, Dorina [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Schmahl, Christian [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Bohus, Martin [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Negative evaluation bias for positive self-referential information in borderline personality disorder
• Verf.angabe: Dorina Winter, Cornelia Herbert, Katrin Koplin, Christian Schmahl, Martin Bohus, Stefanie Lis
• E-Jahr: 2015
• Jahr: January 22, 2015
• Umfang: 16 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 17.08.2017
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: PLOS ONE
• Ort Quelle: San Francisco, California, US : PLOS, 2006
• Jahr Quelle: 2015
• Band/Heft Quelle: 10(2015,1) Artikel-Nummer e0117083, 16 Seiten
• ISSN Quelle: 1932-6203
• DOI: doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0117083
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Cognition
• Sach-SW: Depression
• Sach-SW: Global health
• Sach-SW: Memory
• Sach-SW: Mental health and psychiatry
• Sach-SW: Patients
• Sach-SW: Personality disorders
• Sach-SW: Personality tests
• K10plus-PPN: 1562502980

Abstract

Previous research has suggested that patients meeting criteria for borderline personality disorder (BPD) display altered self-related information processing. However, experimental studies on dysfunctional self-referential information processing in BPD are rare. In this study, BPD patients (N = 30) and healthy control participants (N = 30) judged positive, neutral, and negative words in terms of emotional valence. Referential processing was manipulated by a preceding self-referential pronoun, an other-referential pronoun, or no referential context. Subsequently, patients and participants completed a free recall and recognition task. BPD patients judged positive and neutral words as more negative than healthy control participants when the words had self-reference or no reference. In BPD patients, these biases were significantly correlated with self-reported attributional style, particularly for negative events, but unrelated to measures of depressive mood. However, BPD patients did not differ from healthy control participants in a subsequent free recall task and a recognition task. Our findings point to a negative evaluation bias for positive, self-referential information in BPD. This bias did not affect the storage of information in memory, but may be related to self-attributions of negative events in everyday life in BPD.