Lower self-positivity and its association with self-esteem in women with borderline personality disorder

• Verfasst von: Winter, Dorina [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Schmahl, Christian [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Bohus, Martin [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Lis, Stefanie [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Lower self-positivity and its association with self-esteem in women with borderline personality disorder
• Verf.angabe: Dorina Winter, Leah Steeb, Cornelia Herbert, Constantine Sedikides, Christian Schmahl, Martin Bohus, Stefanie Lis
• E-Jahr: 2018
• Jahr: 2 August 2018
• Umfang: 10 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 31.03.2020
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Behaviour research and therapy
• Ort Quelle: Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier Science, 1963
• Jahr Quelle: 2018
• Band/Heft Quelle: 109(2018), Seite 84-93
• ISSN Quelle: 1873-622X
• DOI: doi:10.1016/j.brat.2018.07.008
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Borderline personality disorder
• Sach-SW: Emotional content
• Sach-SW: Self-criticism
• Sach-SW: Self-esteem
• Sach-SW: Self-evaluation
• Sach-SW: Self-reference
• K10plus-PPN: 1693576821

Abstract

Self-esteem, the global attitude towards one's self, is low in persons with borderline personality disorder (BPD). This may be partially due to the ways these persons protect or enhance the self. A case in point is self-positivity, the association of positive rather than negative events, experiences, and objects with the self. Self-esteem and self-positivity may result from either conscious or non-conscious processes. We examined whether low self-esteem is related to low self-positivity in BPD, and whether their covariation is contingent upon conscious processing. We assessed explicit self-esteem via self-report (Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale) and implicit self-esteem via the Initial Preference Task in women with BPD and healthy control women. We assessed self-positivity in a self-referential processing task, in which participants rated the valence of positive, neutral, and negative nouns, and later recalled them. We manipulated referential context via supraliminal or subliminal priming of self-reference, other-reference, or no reference. Explicit and implicit self-esteem were lower in the BPD group than in the healthy control group. Participants with BPD rated self-referential words less positively, when primes were presented supraliminally. Less positive and slower ratings of positive self-referential words were associated with lower explicit, but not implicit, self-esteem in the BPD group.