Comparative Evaluation of Cognitive Emotion Regulation between “B” Personality Disorders and Normal Persons

Abstract

The paper presents a Basical-Ex-Post facto research. 230 graduate students voluntarily answered the CERQ and MCMI III. The basic goal of this research is to compare four types of cluster B personality disorder who are identified by BR score of 60<x <75 in MCMI III with normal personality who are identified by BR score of x<60 in cluster B personality disorders in MCMI III. The Comparative study has been carried out by MANOVA. There were not significant differences between people of cluster B personality disorders and people of normal personality in nine cognitive coping strategies of CREQ.

Emotion regulation, mindfulness, and self-compassion among patients with borderline personality disorder, compared to healthy control subjects

“…Another study compared BPD and schizotypal PD, where the participants scored similarly on CERQ, except for the catastrophizing subscale that had higher scores in BPD patients [ 31 ]. Our study will have added value to the previous studies comparing BPD and HC groups by using CERQ [ 26 , 29 , 32 ], in as much as our research analyzes all the subscales of CERQ and determines effect sizes as well.…”

“…This study suggests that dysfunctional cognitive emotion regulation can be a characteristic of personality disorders in general. Another study, however, shows no significant differences between people of cluster B personality disorders and healthy control in the nine cognitive emotion regulation strategies measured by CERQ [ 29 ]. Research found [ 30 ] that the use of maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies (self-blame, blaming others, rumination, and catastrophizing) were related to high levels of negative affectivity and increased psychological problems in people with PDs.…”