Self-ratings of anger and hostility in borderline personality disorder
Abstract
Forty-six patients with borderline personality disorder with and without major depression and 27 normal volunteers completed the Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory, a self-rating scale of anger and hostility. The patients with borderline personality had significantly higher scores than the normal volunteers. The scores of the patients with borderline personality disorders were not related to gender, treatment or research setting, the degree of acute distress, or the presence of major depression. These findings suggest that a proneness to anger and hostility are enduring characteristics of borderline personality disorder and that anger and depression may represent independent clinical conditions with independent biological mechanisms regulating these two affective states.
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Exaggerated anger responses are commonly reported among adults with BPD.
“exaggerated anger responses are commonly reported among adults with a BPD diagnosis”
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- Authors
- GARDNER, D. L., LEIBENLUFT, E., O???LEARY, K. M., & COWDRY, R. W.
- Affiliations
- National Institute of Mental Health (US)
- Georgetown University (US)
- ORCID
- LEIBENLUFT, ELLEN
- Venue
- The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
- Published
- 1991-03
- Volume
- 179
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 157-161
- ISSN
- 0022-3018 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2037635303
- Cited by
- 73
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 4
- FWCI
- 2.12
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Personality Traits and Psychology
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
- Keywords
- borderline personality disorder, anger, hostility, major depressive disorder, Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory, affective states, gender differences
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Ambulatory Care, Anger, Borderline Personality Disorder, Depressive Disorder, Female, Hospitalization, Hostility, Humans, Male, Personality Inventory, Research Design, Sex Factors
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