Negativism in evaluative judgments of words among depressed outpatients with borderline personality disorder

This study contrasted the frequency of negativistic evaluative judgments to words of various emotional content between two groups of patients with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) (20 patients with a comorbid diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and 20 patients without BPD) and a group...

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Published in:Journal of personality disorders 1998-12, Vol.12 (4), p.351-361
Main Authors: KURTZ, J. E, MOREY, L. C
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Attitude
Biological and medical sciences
Borderline Personality Disorder - complications
Borderline Personality Disorder - psychology
Case-Control Studies
Cognitive Style
Control Groups
Depression
Depression (Psychology)
Depressive Disorder - complications
Depressive Disorder - psychology
Female
Humans
Individualized Instruction
Interview, Psychological
Judgment
Male
Medical sciences
Mood disorders
Negativism
Personality disorders
Personality Problems
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Word Association Tests
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Summary:This study contrasted the frequency of negativistic evaluative judgments to words of various emotional content between two groups of patients with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) (20 patients with a comorbid diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and 20 patients without BPD) and a group of 20 community adult Controls. BPD patients made more "dislike" judgments with neutral words than MDD patients and Controls. The performances of the MDD patients were more similar to the Control group than to the BPD group, despite negligible differences between the two patient groups in the severity of depressive symptoms and overall psychopathology. As a whole, these data indicate that the presence of borderline features in patients with MDD can be an important qualifier in terms of patients attitudinal dispositions.
ISSN:0885-579X
1943-2763
DOI:10.1521/pedi.1998.12.4.351