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dc.contributor.authorEvans, Davy
dc.contributor.authorDalgleish, T
dc.contributor.authorDudas, R
dc.contributor.authorDenman, Chess
dc.contributor.authorHoward, M
dc.contributor.authorDunn, BD
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-26T11:51:49Z
dc.date.issued2015-05-28
dc.description.abstractA number of clinical theories emphasise self-concept disturbance as central to borderline personality disorder (BPD). To date, however, there has been limited empirical examination of exactly how BPD changes the content and structure of self-concept. Moreover, it is unclear if patterns of self-concept disturbance are unique to BPD or are driven by axis-I comorbidities such as depression. To examine this issue, the present study adopted a dimensional design, examining how performance on a novel adaptation of a well-validated measure of self-concept (the Psychological Distance Scaling Task) was related to BPD and depression symptoms in a sample of 93 individuals with a wide range of symptom severity. While greater BPD severity was associated with less positive and more negative content of self-concept, this was driven by depression symptoms. Similarly, positive content was more diffuse and negative content more interconnected at higher levels of BPD severity, but for positive content, this was most clearly linked to comorbid depression features. In contrast, BPD severity (over and above depression symptoms) was uniquely associated with greater ‘clustering’ for positive and negative content (i.e. a more fragmented self-concept). This pattern of results lends support to clinical theories arguing that self-concept fragmentation is core to BPD and also supports the utility of dimensional analyses to identify patterns of cognitive-affective disturbance unique to BPD versus those shared with comorbid conditions like depression.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipMRCen_GB
dc.identifier.citationVol. 39 (5), pp 613-626en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10608-015-9695-3
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/17314
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherSpringer Verlag (Germany)en_GB
dc.relation.urlhttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10608-015-9695-3en_GB
dc.rights.embargoreasonPublisher's policyen_GB
dc.rightsThe final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10608-015-9695-3en_GB
dc.subjectSelf-concepten_GB
dc.subjectBorderline personality disorderen_GB
dc.subjectDepressionen_GB
dc.subjectComorbidityen_GB
dc.titleExamining the shared and unique features of self-concept content and structure in Borderline Personality Disorder and Depressionen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.identifier.issn0147-5916
pubs.declined2015-05-26T11:40:01.770+0100
dc.descriptionAccepteden_GB
dc.descriptionArticleen_GB
dc.descriptionCopyright © Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015en_GB
dc.descriptionThe online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s10608-015-9695-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.en_GB
dc.identifier.journalCognitive Therapy and Researchen_GB


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