Distancing oneself from God: relationships with borderline personality symptomatology |
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| Authors: | Randy A. Sansone Michael W. Wiederman |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Departments of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine , Wright State University School of Medicine , Dayton , OH;2. Departments of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine , Kettering Medical Center, Sycamore Primary Care Center , 2115 Leiter Road, Miamisburg , OH, 45342 , USA Randy.sansone@khnetwork.org;4. Department of Human Relations , Columbia College , Columbia , SC , USA |
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| Abstract: | Self-harm behaviour traditionally has been associated with borderline personality disorder. In this study, we examined the relationship between borderline personality symptomatology and intentionally distancing oneself from God as self-punishment, based on the assumption that such self-punishment may represent a form of self-harm behaviour. Data from four previous samples of primary care outpatients collected over a two-year period were combined (N?=?1511). Borderline personality was assessed with two measures: the borderline personality scale of the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire-4 (PDQ-4) and the Self-Harm Inventory (SHI). Point-biserial correlation coefficients revealed that those who endorsed distancing oneself from God as punishment scored relatively higher on both the PDQ-4 (r?=?0.40, p?r?=?0.46, p?X2 ?=?152.53, p?X2 ?=?224.12, p?
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| Keywords: | borderline personality distancing from God self-punishment self-harm self-harm behaviour Self-Harm Inventory |
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