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  1. In this study, network analysis technique is applied to dissect the links between personality organization, reflective functioning, attachment security, primary affective traits, childhood trauma and psychopat...

    Authors: Jürgen Fuchshuber, Victor Blüml, Nestor Kapusta, Henriette Löffler-Stastka, Johanna Alexopoulos, Elisa Renner, Hugo Senra and Human-Friedrich Unterrainer
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2025 12:31
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  2. Parents are often considered reliable reporters of their child’s personality, and are typically the primary informants in youth assessments. However, little is known about how parents’ own personality trait pa...

    Authors: R. Franssens, M. C. Gouwy, J. Vergauwe and B. De Clercq
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2025 12:30
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  3. In a similar way to depression, the development of borderline personality traits seems closely linked to the experience of Stressful Life Events (SLEs). This study examined the extent to which emotion regulati...

    Authors: Tore Aune, Leo Wolmer, Sigrid Flatås Aune, Daniel Hamiel and Hans M. Nordahl
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2025 12:29
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  4. While previous research suggests that borderline personality disorder (BPD) features may be transmitted from mothers to children through maladaptive parenting, little is known about the effect of the invalidat...

    Authors: Zirong Li, Yizhou Chen, Xiuming Zhang and Qian Wang
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2025 12:28
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  5. Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) has been identified as one of the most important predictors of suicidal ideation and attempts. Nevertheless, previous research on NSSI has been limited, with different experiment...

    Authors: Sarah-Louise Unterschemmann, Erik Malte Mueller, Silke Lux, Alexandra Philipsen and Marcel Schulze
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2025 12:27
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  6. Borderline personality disorder is theorized to be the result of an interaction between biological vulnerability and an invalidating environment. Yet, few studies have investigated the relationship between the...

    Authors: Qian Wang, Zirong Li, Yizhou Chen and Jie Zhong
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2025 12:26
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  7. Difficulties in emotion regulation are a key transdiagnostic factor in mental health disorders. While much research has focused on emotion regulation difficulties as stable, trait-like constructs, emotion regu...

    Authors: M. Sicorello, M. Elsaesser and D. R. Kolar
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2025 12:25
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  8. Social decision-making poses challenges for individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), which can lead to maladaptive interpersonal functioning. Although previous research on cooperative decisions ...

    Authors: L. M. Doppelhofer, J. Löloff, C. Neukel, S. C. Herpertz and C. W. Korn
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2025 12:24
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  9. Childhood maltreatment (CM) is a potent predictor of lifelong emotional and psychological difficulties. We investigated how CM affects intra- and interpersonal emotion regulation (ER) processes and explored th...

    Authors: Inga Niedtfeld, Sara E. Schmitz, Michelle Langenstein and Johanna Hepp
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2025 12:23
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  10. Emotional dysregulation, impulsivity, and interpersonal difficulties are some of the severe and debilitating symptoms of borderline personality disorder (BPD). Parenting while living with BPD is associated wit...

    Authors: Karthika Kasiviswanathan, Jessica Lee, Sathya Rao and Jillian H. Broadbear
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2025 12:22
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  12. Individuals with a borderline personality disorder (BPD) show impairments in their ability to mentalize. Particularly in the parent-child relationship, mentalizing is an important foundation for sensitive pare...

    Authors: Jana Zitzmann, Anna Georg, Charlotte Rosenbach and Babette Renneberg
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2025 12:20
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  13. A hallmark of borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a disposition to anger, irritability and aggression. High impulsivity, particularly high emotional impulsivity (urgency), has been associated with aggress...

    Authors: Sylvia Martin, Jonathan Del Monte and Richard Howard
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2025 12:19
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  14. People with borderline personality disorder (BPD) often experience instability in their career paths. Previous studies have mainly focused on their challenges in work participation. There has been limited atte...

    Authors: Nadine Larivière, Marc Corbière, Eve-Lyne Robitaille-Beaumier, Pierre David and Lionel Cailhol
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2025 12:18
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  15. In clinical practice and research, self-report instruments are frequently used for assessing the severity of borderline personality disorder (BPD) symptomatology experienced by men and women. Men with BPD are ...

    Authors: Leonie Strunk, Kathrin Dreyße and Christoph Kröger
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2025 12:17
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  16. Contemporary models of personality assessment emphasize a dimensional rather than a categorical framework for measuring an individual’s level of personality functioning. This viewpoint has also been incorporat...

    Authors: Emanuela S. Gritti, De Carli Pietro, Joost Hutsebaut, Alessandra Simonelli and Johannes Zimmermann
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2025 12:16
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  17. Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a severe mental health condition that requires intensive psychotherapeutic treatment. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a specialized treatment approach for BPD wit...

    Authors: Ruben Vonderlin, Tali Boritz, Carola Claus, Büsra Senyüz, Saskia Mahalingam, Julia Schmelz, Silja Knolle-Ventjeer, Philip S. Santangelo, Ulrich W. Ebner-Priemer, Christian Schmahl, Jürgen Margraf, Tobias Teismann, Stefanie Lis, Nikolaus Kleindienst, Shelley McMain and Martin Bohus
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2025 12:15
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  18. Although Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) and physiological measurements provide a valuable opportunity to evaluate therapeutic interventions in real time, no study has used this approach to assess Dialec...

    Authors: Mădălina Elena Costache, Federica Gioia, Nicola Vanello, Alberto Greco, Antonio Capobianco, Sébastien Weibel and Luisa Weiner
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2025 12:14
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  19. Countries permitting assisted dying for mental disorder as the sole underlying condition (MD-SUMC) find that individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) constitute a significant proportion of people...

    Authors: Hira M. Aslam, Jonah Brodeur and Paul S. Links
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2025 12:13
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  20. In adolescent Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), interactions with

    Authors: Katharina Williams, Anna Fuchs, Jana Kuehn, Leonie Fleck, Stefan Lerch, Marialuisa Cavelti, Julian Koenig and Michael Kaess
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2025 12:12
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  21. Sleep disturbances are common in patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and are associated with a poor prognosis and symptom severity. Research findings on sleep abnormalities in individuals with ...

    Authors: Mariana Mendoza Alvarez, Johan Verbraecken, Laurence Claes, Marie Vandekerckhove and Livia De Picker
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2025 12:11
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  22. Understanding sex differences is crucial for improving diagnosis and treatment for personality disorders (PDs). This study aimed to investigate sex differences in personality dysfunction as per Criterion A of ...

    Authors: Marialuisa Cavelti, Jana Schenk, Silvano Sele, Corinna Reichl, Julian Koenig, Ines Mürner-Lavanchy and Michael Kaess
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2025 12:10
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  23. Neurological soft signs (NSS) are subtle sensorimotor abnormalities that have been observed in various mental disorders with neurodevelopmental origin. While NSS have been extensively examined in patients with...

    Authors: Marie-Luise Otte, Mike M. Schmitgen, Nadine D. Wolf, Katharina M. Kubera, Yunus Balcik, Chantal Tech, Mert Koc, Yéléna Le Prieult, Fabio Sambataro, Geva A. Brandt, Stefan Fritze, Dusan Hirjak and Robert Christian Wolf
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2025 12:9
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  24. Emotion dysregulation is a transdiagnostic construct associated with mental health problems, including self-harm and borderline personality disorder (BPD). Although often targeted in clinical practice, the maj...

    Authors: Iselin Solerød Dibaj, Sudan Prasad Neupane and Lars Mehlum
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2025 12:8
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  25. Increasing research has contributed to the destigmatization of sadomasochistic sexual preferences. Nevertheless, persons diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) frequently report self-harmful maso...

    Authors: Hannah F. Warkentin, Rose Gholami Mazinan, Johannes Fuss, Leonhard Kratzer and Sarah V. Biedermann
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2025 12:7
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  26. While the majority of personality disorder research focuses on adults, research shows that borderline personality disorder (BPD) often emerges in adolescence, highlighting the importance of early intervention ...

    Authors: B. F. S. Grenyer, N. J. S. Day, G. Denmeade, A. Ciarla, K. Davy, S. Reis and M. Townsend
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2025 12:6
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  27. Dialectical Behavior Therapy’s (DBT) well established effectiveness in reducing emotion dysregulation, and the growing recognition that parental emotion regulation is critical to effective parenting has led to...

    Authors: Yoel Everett, Olivia A. Frigoletto, Jacqueline R. O’Brien, Amy L. Byrd, Stephanie D. Stepp and Maureen Zalewski
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2025 12:5
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  28. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with emotion dysregulation (ED) and in ADHD, beyond ADHD and comorbidity severity, ED confers increased risk for negative outcomes. First- and seco...

    Authors: Krisztina Kondi, Mária Takács, Evelyn Kovács-Posta, Claudia Szajli, Tünde Sebők-Welker, János M. Réthelyi and Nóra Bunford
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2025 12:3
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  29. Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a prevalent and concerning behavior among adolescents, often triggered by negative interpersonal events. As social media is essential in the daily life of adolescents, gaining...

    Authors: Andreas Goreis, Dorothy Chang, Diana Klinger, Heidi-Elisabeth Zesch, Bettina Pfeffer, Sofia-Marie Oehlke, Ulrich W. Ebner-Priemer, Laurence Claes, Paul L. Plener and Oswald D. Kothgassner
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2025 12:4
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  30. Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) are both effective in treating borderline personality disorder (BPD). Impulsivity and impaired decision-making are p...

    Authors: Milenko Kujovic, Christian Bahr, Mathias Riesbeck, Daniel Benz, Martina Deiß, Zsofia Margittai, Sebastian Henges, Dirk Reinermann, Christian Plewnia and Eva Meisenzahl
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2025 12:2
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  31. Adolescents with low self-efficacy may exhibit borderline personality features. This study aimed to investigate the role of school adjustment and social support in the association between self-efficacy and bor...

    Authors: Tengfei Yu, Xiaodi Niu, Liran Fu and Liju Qian
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2025 12:1
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  32. Subjective emptiness is a transdiagnostic clinical dimension related to suicide, distress, and other maladaptive outcomes. Although it is typically conceptualized as a symptom of borderline personality disorde...

    Authors: Christopher J. Hopwood and Julija Gjorgjieva
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2024 11:31
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  33. Adaptive strategies of emotion regulation are important for adolescents, as maladaptive strategies of such can manifest as psychopathology that is sometimes severe. Individual biological characteristics and in...

    Authors: Jennifer J. Phillips, Cynthia L. Smith and Martha Ann Bell
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2024 11:30
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  34. Interpersonal impairments in patients diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are characterized by the fear of being rejected and high levels of loneliness. Potential underlying factors are altera...

    Authors: Anna Schulze, Berit Rommelfanger, Elisabeth Schendel, Kornelius Immanuel Kammler-Sücker and Stefanie Lis
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2024 11:29
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  35. Engagement in Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) is high among adolescents with borderline personality disorder (BPD), but the trajectory of NSSI in the transition period from adolescence to adulthood is unclear,...

    Authors: Mie Sedoc Jørgensen, Carla Sharp, Sune Bo, Bo Møhl, Mickey T. Kongerslev, Lise Møller, Martin Vestergaard, Ole Jakob Storebø, Stig Poulsen, Emma Beck and Erik Simonsen
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2024 11:28
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  37. Insecure adult attachment has been associated with psychiatric disorders characterized by emotional dysregulation, such as borderline personality disorder (BPD), bipolar disorder (BD) and attention deficit/hyp...

    Authors: I. Kouros, M. Isaksson, L. Ekselius and M. Ramklint
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2024 11:26
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  38. Perinatal borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a common condition in perinatal mental health settings with few specialised treatment options, and little is known about the enduring effects of available tre...

    Authors: Alexandra Giles, Anne Sved Williams, Stephanie Webb, Phoebe Drioli-Phillips and Amelia Winter
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2024 11:25
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  39. Attentional processes are important for regulating emotional states and coping with stressful events. Orientation of attention acts as filter for subsequent information processing. So far, only few eye-trackin...

    Authors: Taavi Wenk, Anna-Christina Günther, Carolin Webelhorst, Anette Kersting, Charlott Maria Bodenschatz and Thomas Suslow
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2024 11:24
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  41. Mindfulness skills training is a core component of Dialectical Behavior Therapy and aims to improve emotion dysregulation (ED) in people with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). However, the underlying mech...

    Authors: Carlos Schmidt, Joaquim Soler, Daniel Vega, Stella Nicolaou, Laia Arias and Juan C. Pascual
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2024 11:22
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  42. Traumatic childhood experiences are a major risk factor for developing mental disorders later in life. Over the past decade, researchers have begun to investigate the role of early trauma in impairments in per...

    Authors: Katja Bertsch, Isabelle Göhre, Marianne Cottin, Max Zettl, Carolin Wienrich and Sarah N. Back
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2024 11:20
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  43. Despite being one of the most popular measures of borderline pathology in adolescents, only one study has evaluated clinical cut-off scores for the Borderline Personality Features Scale for Children (BPFS-C) u...

    Authors: Tess Gecha, Veronica McLaren and Carla Sharp
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2024 11:21
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  44. Attributions are the processes by which individuals explain the causes of positive and negative events. A maladaptive attributional style has been associated with reduced self-esteem, psychosocial functioning,...

    Authors: Anna Schulze, Berit Rommelfanger, Elisabeth Schendel, Hannah Schott, Aimée Lerchl, Ruben Vonderlin and Stefanie Lis
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2024 11:19
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  45. Though Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and other treatment models for individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) have shown to be efficient in inpatient and outpatient settings, there is a gener...

    Authors: Andreas Schindler, H. F. Warkentin, J. Bierbrodt, H. König, A. Konnopka, A. Pepic, J. Peth, M. Lambert, J. Gallinat, A. Karow, H.-H. König, M. Härter, H. Schulz, A. Rohenkohl, K. Krog, S. V. Biedermann…
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2024 11:18
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  46. Psychiatric medications are not efficacious for treating borderline personality disorder (BPD), yet many patients with BPD are prescribed multiple psychiatric medications. This study aimed to (1) characterize ...

    Authors: Sarah Hauryski, Alexandra Potts, Alison Swigart, Dara Babinski, Daniel A. Waschbusch and Lauren N. Forrest
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2024 11:17
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  47. Families and significant others of people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) show increased levels of psychological distress. Family Connections®, a 12-week group intervention based on the principles o...

    Authors: Satchel Cohen, Virginie Salamin, Nader Perroud, Karen Dieben, Déborah Ducasse, Amaury Durpoix, Florence Guenot, Hervé Tissot, Ueli Kramer and Mario Speranza
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2024 11:16
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  48. Individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) frequently alter between idealizing and devaluing other persons, which has been linked to an increased tendency to update self-relevant beliefs and impres...

    Authors: Kevin Konegen, Georg Halbeisen and Georgios Paslakis
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2024 11:15
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  49. We describe a collection of themes for a research agenda for personality disorders that was originally formulated for the ESSPD Borderline Congress in 2022.

    Authors: Babette Renneberg, Joost Hutsebaut, Ann Berens, Chiara De Panfilis, Katja Bertsch, Andres Kaera, Ueli Kramer, Christian Schmahl, Michaela Swales, Svenja Taubner, Mariana Mendoza Alvarez and Julia Sieg
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2024 11:14
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  50. Psychiatrists often hesitate to diagnose borderline personality disorder (BPD). While individuals with BPD have reported both positive and negative experiences upon receiving their diagnosis, no study has spec...

    Authors: Léa Villet, Abtine Madjlessi, Anne Revah-Levy, Mario Speranza, Nadia Younes and Jordan Sibéoni
    Citation: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation 2024 11:13
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