A Preliminary Examination of the Role of Emotion Differentiation in the Relationship Between Borderline Personality and Urges for Maladaptive Behaviors

Dixon-Gordon, Katherine L.; Chapman, Alexander L.; Weiss, Nicole H.; Rosenthal, M. Zachary

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A Preliminary Examination of the Role of Emotion Differentiation in the Relationship Between Borderline Personality and Urges for Maladaptive Behaviors

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Dixon-Gordon, Katherine L., Chapman, Alexander L., Weiss, Nicole H., Rosenthal, M. Zachary·2014·Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment

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Background and objectives Impulsive, maladaptive, and potentially self-damaging behaviors are a hallmark feature of borderline personality (BP) pathology. Difficulties with emotion regulation have been implicated in both BP pathology and maladaptive behaviors. One facet of emotion regulation that may be particularly important in the relation between BP pathology and urges for maladaptive behaviors is emotion differentiation. Methods Over one day, 84 participants high (n = 34) and low (n = 50) in BP pathology responded to questions regarding state emotions and urges to engage in maladaptive behaviors using handheld computers, in addition to a measure of emotion-related difficulties controlling impulsive behaviors. Results Results revealed that individuals high in BP pathology reported greater emotion-related impulsivity as well as daily urges to engage in maladaptive behaviors. However, the association between BP group and both baseline emotion-related impulsivity and daily urges for maladaptive behaviors was strongest among individuals who had low levels of positive emotion differentiation. Conversely, negative emotion differentiation did not significantly moderate the relationships between BP group and either emotion-related difficulties controlling impulsive behaviors or state urges for maladaptive behaviors. Limitations Limitations to the present study include the reliance upon an analogue sample and the relatively brief monitoring period. Conclusions Despite limitations, these results suggest that, among individuals with high BP pathology, the ability to differentiate between positive emotions may be a particularly important target in the reduction of maladaptive behaviors.

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In that study, negative emotion differentiation did not significantly moderate either of these relations.
“Interestingly negative emotion differentiation did not significantly moderate either of these relations.”
From Decoupling as a Mechanism of Change in Mindfulness and Acceptance: A Literature Review (2015) · cites this paper as Dixon-Gordon et al., 2014
In an EMA study with 34 college students with high BPD symptoms and 50 with low, positive emotion differentiation moderated such that BPD symptom level related to both impulsivity and urges to engage in problem behaviors only among those lower in positive emotion differentiation; these variables were not related at high levels of differentiation.
“There were two significant moderation effects with positive emotion differentiation such that BPD symptom level related to both impulsivity and urges to engage in problem behaviors only among those lower in positive emotion differentiation; these variables were not related at high levels of differentiation.”
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Authors: Dixon-Gordon, K. L., Chapman, A. L., Weiss, N. H., & Rosenthal, M. Z.
Affiliations: Simon Fraser University (CA)
Yale University (US)
Duke University (US)
ORCID: Chapman, Alexander L.
Weiss, Nicole H.
Rosenthal, M. Zachary
Venue: Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2014-04-22
Volume: 36
Issue: 4
Pages: 616-625
ISSN: 0164-0305 (ISSN-L)
0882-2689
1573-3505
DOI: 10.1007/s10862-014-9423-4
PMC: PMC4346340
OpenAlex: W1997502280
Cited by: 63
References: 73
Citations by year: 2026: 2 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 10 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 1
FWCI: 3.94
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Licence: www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations: Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders: Simon Fraser University
National Institutes of Health
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
National Institute on Drug Abuse (T32DA019426)
Topics: Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
Keywords: borderline personality disorder, emotion differentiation, emotion regulation, emotion-related impulsivity, negative emotion differentiation, state emotions

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