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Comparing impulsivity in borderline personality, schizophrenia and obsessional‐compulsive disorders: Who is ahead?
Author(s) -
Martin Sylvia,
Graziani Pierluigi,
DelMonte Jonathan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/jclp.23129
Subject(s) - impulsivity , borderline personality disorder , psychology , sensation seeking , context (archaeology) , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , clinical psychology , psychiatry , personality disorders , personality , paleontology , social psychology , biology
Objective Impulsivity impacts life domains and in a psychiatric context is often associated with disorders severity and stigmatization. Borderline personality disorder's (BPD), Schizophrenic disorder's (SZD), and obsessional compulsive disorder's (OCD) impulsivity issues relate to worse prognosis. This study aims to compare these disorders assessing their proneness to impulsivity and urgency. Methods We recruited 90 patients among them OCD ( n = 25), SZD ( n = 23), and BPD ( n = 50), and 24 healthy control participants (HC). We assessed the diagnosis according and measured the impulsivity level. Results Our results showed that BPD was significantly more impulsive than HC, SZD, and OCD. HC, SZD, and OCD being equivalent on their global Urgency‐Premeditation‐Perseverance‐Sensation seeking scores. For urgency, BPD was also superior to others, OCD was superior to HC, but SZD and HC were equivalent. The urgency was correlated to SZD's scale for SZD, no link appeared between borderline personality questionnaire and Yale‐Brown Obsessive‐Compulsive Scale's score. Conclusion These results question the existent literature relating impulsivity and SZD.