What is it about?
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is commonly characterized by pervasive instability. In this ambulatory assessment study, we found that compared to patients with anxiety disorders, patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are characterized by heightened self-esteem instability in their daily lives, with our findings being robust across several statistical instability measures. In contrast, clinical groups did not differ regarding affective instability.
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Why is it important?
Our results support previous findings on affective instability, which may constitute a transdiagnostic feature. Importantly, they provide the first evidence that heightened self-esteem instability is particularly prominent in BPD, stressing the growing importance of self-esteem instability for the understanding of BPD-specific characteristics in daily life.
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This page is a summary of: Self-esteem instability might be more characteristic of borderline personality disorder than affective instability: Findings from an e-diary study with clinical and healthy controls., Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, April 2022, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/abn0000731.
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