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Borderline Personality and Substance Use in Women
Author(s) -
Feske Feske,
Tarter Ralph E.,
Kirisci Kirisci,
Pilkonis Paul A.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
the american journal on addictions
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.997
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1521-0391
pISSN - 1055-0496
DOI - 10.1080/10550490500528357
Subject(s) - borderline personality disorder , substance abuse , heroin , clinical psychology , psychology , psychiatry , substance use , odds , odds ratio , personality , cluster (spacecraft) , alcohol , antisocial personality disorder , alcohol use disorder , drug , medicine , poison control , injury prevention , logistic regression , medical emergency , programming language , social psychology , biochemistry , chemistry , computer science
The association between borderline personality disorder (BPD) and substance use disorder (SUD) was examined in a predominantly psychiatric (77.6%) sample of 232 women. BPD proved to be a significant predictor ofa lifetime diagnosis of SUD across four different categories: any SUD (including alcohol); alcohol use; drug use; and heroin, cocaine, or poly‐substance use. BPD continued to be a predictor of SUD even when the effects of other cluster B and all cluster C PDs were controlled statistically. Antisocial personality disorder generally yielded larger odds ratios than BPD and emerged as a partial mediator of the relation between BPD and SUD. Histrionic PD was the only other PD that showed meaningful relations with SUD.