Negative evaluation bias for positive self-referential information in borderline personality disorder
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) a...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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January 22, 2015
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PLOS ONE
Year: 2015, Volume: 10, Issue: 1 |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0117083 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0117083 Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://journals.plos.org.ezproxy.medma.uni-heidelberg.de/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0117083 
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| Author Notes: | Dorina Winter, Cornelia Herbert, Katrin Koplin, Christian Schmahl, Martin Bohus, Stefanie Lis |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0117083 |