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Social problem solving, autobiographical memory and future specificity in outpatients with borderline personality disorder
Author(s) -
Kremers I.P.,
Spinhoven Ph.,
Van der Does A.J.W.,
Van Dyck R.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
clinical psychology and psychotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.315
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1099-0879
pISSN - 1063-3995
DOI - 10.1002/cpp.484
Subject(s) - borderline personality disorder , psychology , social functioning , personality , interpersonal communication , autobiographical memory , memory problems , social problem solving , developmental psychology , interpersonal relationship , clinical psychology , cognition , psychiatry , psychoanalysis , social psychology , disease , medicine , dementia , pathology
The present study compared outpatients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and controls on social problem solving capabilities and specificity of imagining future events. It was hypothesized that patients with BPD would have more deficiencies in both these areas, and that there would be a relation between problem solving and specificity of remembering past and imagining future events. Seventy‐eight patients with BPD reported fewer active means to solve interpersonal problems and depressed patients with BPD tended to have more difficulties in imagining positive future events in a specific way compared to controls. Specificity and problem solving were hardly related in patients with BPD. Social problem solving deficits in BPD may be a consequence of disturbed emotion regulation rather than a consequence of restricted memory accessibility. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.