Jana Volkert, Gabrielle S Ilagan, Evan A Iliakis, Boyu Ren, Paul Schröder-Pfeifer, Lois W Choi-Kain
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to investigate factors associated with functioning in participants with and without borderline personality disorder (BPD). In particular, we were interested whether mentalizing and related social cognitive capacities, as factors of internal functioning, are important in predicting psychosocial functioning, in addition to other psychopathological and sociodemographic factors. METHOD: This is a cross-sectional study with N = 53 right-handed females with and without BPD, without significant differences in age, IQ, and socioeconomic status, who completed semi-structured diagnostic and self-report measures of social cognition...
January 12, 2024: Psychology and Psychotherapy