Implicit Self-Esteem in Borderline Personality and Depersonalization Disorder

Hedrick, Alexis N.; Berlin, Heather A.

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00091

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“…Contrary to our findings, studies assessing implicit self-esteem with the IAT in BPD report no significant differences between BPD and HC groups (Hedrick & Berlin, 2012;Vater et al, 2013). It would be premature to draw conclusions, as this literature is scarce.…”

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“…The IAT assesses the strength of associative bonds (i.e., speed of categorization) between self ("I") and positive (e.g., "good") or negative (e.g., "bad") stimuli versus another person (e.g., "other") and said stimuli. The study revealed no BPD-HC differences in the strength of implicit associations between the self and positive information, and between the self and negative information (Hedrick & Berlin, 2012;Vater et al, 2013). Another study (Vater, Schroder-Abe, Schutz, Lammers, & Roepke, 2010) used the Initials Preference Task (IPT; Kitayama & Rarasawa, 1997;Nuttin, 1985).…”

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Lower self-positivity and its association with self-esteem in women with borderline personality disorder

Winter

Steeb

Herbert

et al. 2018

Behaviour Research and Therapy

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Self-esteem, the global attitude towards one's self, is low in persons with borderline personality disorder (BPD). This may be partially due to the ways these persons protect or enhance the self. A case in point is self-positivity, the association of positive rather than negative events, experiences, and objects with the self. Self-esteem and self-positivity may result from either conscious or non-conscious processes. We examined whether low self-esteem is related to low self-positivity in BPD, and whether their covariation is contingent upon conscious processing. We assessed explicit self-esteem via self-report (Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale) and implicit self-esteem via the Initial Preference Task in women with BPD and healthy control women. We assessed self-positivity in a self-referential processing task, in which participants rated the valence of positive, neutral, and negative nouns, and later recalled them. We manipulated referential context via supraliminal or subliminal priming of self-reference, other-reference, or no reference. Explicit and implicit self-esteem were lower in the BPD group than in the healthy control group. Participants with BPD rated self-referential words less positively, when primes were presented supraliminally. Less positive and slower ratings of positive self-referential words were associated with lower explicit, but not implicit, self-esteem in the BPD group.

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Lower self-positivity and its association with self-esteem in women with borderline personality disorder

Winter

Steeb

Herbert

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Behaviour Research and Therapy

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“…Surprisingly, identity disturbances and self-esteem instability have received little empirical attention (Santangelo, Bohus, & Ebner-Priemer, 2014). Even though several studies examined aspects of altered self-esteem in BPD such as trait self-esteem (Roepke et al, 2011), implicit self-esteem (Hedrick & Berlin, 2012), and discrepancies between explicit and implicit self-esteem (Vater, Schröder-Abé, Schütz, Lammers, & Roepke, 2010), heightened instability in the self-esteem of patients with BPD using e-diaries has not been demonstrated empirically. This is surprising, as there is ample empirical evidence that unstable self-esteem is associated with a myriad of BPD-like symptoms in healthy subjects' everyday lives (for a review, see Winter, Bohus, & Lis, 2017; for more details, see Appendix S1 in the online supplementary material): Self-esteem instability (either by itself or in combination with self-esteem level) is associated with diminished self-concept clarity and lower self-acceptance.…”

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The temporal interplay of self-esteem instability and affective instability in borderline personality disorder patients’ everyday lives.

Santangelo

Reinhard

Koudela-Hamila

et al. 2017

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is defined by a pervasive pattern of instability. Although there is ample empirical evidence that unstable self-esteem is associated with a myriad of BPD-like symptoms, self-esteem instability and its temporal dynamics have received little empirical attention in patients with BPD. Even worse, the temporal interplay of affective instability and self-esteem instability has been neglected completely, although it has been hypothesized recently that the lack of specificity of affective instability in association with BPD might be explained by the highly intertwined temporal relationship between affective and self-esteem instability. To investigate self-esteem instability, its temporal interplay with affective instability, and its association with psychopathology, 60 patients with BPD and 60 healthy controls (HCs) completed electronic diaries for 4 consecutive days during their everyday lives. Participants reported their current self-esteem, valence, and tense arousal levels 12 times a day in approximately one-hr intervals. We used multiple state-of-the-art statistical techniques and graphical approaches to reveal patterns of instability, clarify group differences, and examine the temporal interplay of self-esteem instability and affective instability. As hypothesized, instability in both self-esteem and affect was clearly elevated in the patients with BPD. In addition, self-esteem instability and affective instability were highly correlated. Both types of instability were related to general psychopathology. Because self-esteem instability could not fully explain affective instability and vice versa and neither affective instability nor self-esteem instability was able to explain psychopathology completely, our findings suggest that these types of instability represent unique facets of BPD. (PsycINFO Database Record

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“…ESE measures might be influenced by the patients' volatile emotions (Hedrick & Berlin, 2012). Measures of ISE, however, might reveal a non-reflective knowledge about the self (Winter et al, 2017).…”

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Differential diagnosis of borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder: Self‐concept, identity and self‐esteem

Wright

Lari

Iazzetta

et al. 2021

Clin Psychology and Psychoth

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Symptoms of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and bipolar disorder (BD) often overlap. In some cases, it is difficult to conduct a differential diagnosis based only on current diagnostic criteria Therefore, it is important to find clinical factors with high discriminatory specificity that, used together with structured or semi‐structured interviews, could help improve diagnostic practice. We propose that a clinical analysis of identity, self‐concept and self‐esteem may help distinguish the two disorders, when they are not co‐morbid. Our review of the studies that analyse these constructs in BD and BPD, separately, points in the direction of qualitative differences between the two disorders. In BPD, there is a well‐documented identity diffusion, and the self‐concept appears predominantly negative; shifts in self‐concept and self‐esteem are often tied to interpersonal triggers. In BD, patients struggle with their identity, but narrative identity might be less compromised compared with BPD; the shifts in self‐concept and self‐esteem appear more linked to internal (i.e. mood and motivational) factors. We end the paper by discussing the implications for clinicians and ideas for future comparative research.

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Implicit Self-Esteem in Borderline Personality and Depersonalization Disorder

Cited by 12 publications

References 40 publications

Lower self-positivity and its association with self-esteem in women with borderline personality disorder

Lower self-positivity and its association with self-esteem in women with borderline personality disorder

The temporal interplay of self-esteem instability and affective instability in borderline personality disorder patients’ everyday lives.

Differential diagnosis of borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorder: Self‐concept, identity and self‐esteem

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