Lower self-positivity and its association with self-esteem in women with borderline personality disorder
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, experi...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Article (Journal) |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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2 August 2018
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Behaviour research and therapy
Year: 2018, Jahrgang: 109, Pages: 84-93 |
| ISSN: | 1873-622X |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.brat.2018.07.008 |
| Online-Zugang: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2018.07.008 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005796718301207 
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| Verfasserangaben: | Dorina Winter, Leah Steeb, Cornelia Herbert, Constantine Sedikides, Christian Schmahl, Martin Bohus, Stefanie Lis |
| Zusammenfassung: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1873-622X |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.brat.2018.07.008 |