Emotional reactivity and self-regulation in relation to personality disorders |
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Authors: | Laurence Claes Stefaan Vertommen Dirk Smits Patricia Bijttebier |
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Institution: | aK.U. Leuven, Department of Psychology, Leuven, Belgium;bUniversitair Psychiatrisch Centrum St.-Jozef, Kortenberg, Belgium;cHUB, Campus Nieuwland, Brussel, Belgium |
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Abstract: | Associations of both reactive and regulative temperamental features with personality disorders (PDs) are investigated in a sample of 162 normal controls and 89 psychiatric inpatients. Reactive and regulative temperamental features were assessed by means of the BIS/BAS Scales and the Attentional Control Scale. Dimensional PD scores were obtained by using the ADP-IV. All PDs were characterized by low levels of effortful control, cluster C PDs by high BIS and cluster B PDs by high BAS. For several PDs, BIS and effortful control interacted: BIS was only related to severe PD pathology if effortful control was low. Clinical implications of these findings are discussed. |
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Keywords: | Behavioural inhibition Behavioural activation Effortful control Personality disorders |
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