The significance of anxiety symptoms in predicting psychosocial functioning across borderline personality traits.
Emotion regulation is a central task of daily life. Difficulty regulating emotions is a core feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD), one of the most common and impairing personality disorder diagnoses. While anger and symptoms of depression are instantiated in the criteria for BPD, anxiety...
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| author | Jacqueline Howard Robinson De Jesu S-Romero Allison Peipert Tennisha Riley Lauren A Rutter Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces |
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| description | Emotion regulation is a central task of daily life. Difficulty regulating emotions is a core feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD), one of the most common and impairing personality disorder diagnoses. While anger and symptoms of depression are instantiated in the criteria for BPD, anxiety is not, despite being among the most common psychiatric symptoms. In a sample of online respondents (N = 471), we explored the interactions between anxiety symptoms and BPD traits in predicting well-being (WHO-5) as well as poorer work and social adjustment (WSAS), while controlling for anger and depression. We hypothesized that anxiety would lead to more impairment (i.e., lower well-being and poorer work and more difficulties with work and social adjustment) as BPD traits increased. BPD traits and symptoms of anxiety both contributed to overall lower levels well-being and higher levels of psychosocial dysfunction. However, contrary to our expectations, at higher (vs. lower) levels of BPD traits, symptoms of anxiety were less conducive to lower well-being on the WHO-5. For the WSAS, there was no consistent evidence for an interaction between BPD traits and anxiety in predicting functioning. By and large, our results do not support the idea that anxiety contributes to more impairment at higher levels of BPD traits. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-cdc6dcd829504764abb4f5668702ba6e2025-08-20T02:17:08ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032021-01-01161e024509910.1371/journal.pone.0245099The significance of anxiety symptoms in predicting psychosocial functioning across borderline personality traits.Jacqueline HowardRobinson De Jesu S-RomeroAllison PeipertTennisha RileyLauren A RutterLorenzo Lorenzo-LuacesEmotion regulation is a central task of daily life. Difficulty regulating emotions is a core feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD), one of the most common and impairing personality disorder diagnoses. While anger and symptoms of depression are instantiated in the criteria for BPD, anxiety is not, despite being among the most common psychiatric symptoms. In a sample of online respondents (N = 471), we explored the interactions between anxiety symptoms and BPD traits in predicting well-being (WHO-5) as well as poorer work and social adjustment (WSAS), while controlling for anger and depression. We hypothesized that anxiety would lead to more impairment (i.e., lower well-being and poorer work and more difficulties with work and social adjustment) as BPD traits increased. BPD traits and symptoms of anxiety both contributed to overall lower levels well-being and higher levels of psychosocial dysfunction. However, contrary to our expectations, at higher (vs. lower) levels of BPD traits, symptoms of anxiety were less conducive to lower well-being on the WHO-5. For the WSAS, there was no consistent evidence for an interaction between BPD traits and anxiety in predicting functioning. By and large, our results do not support the idea that anxiety contributes to more impairment at higher levels of BPD traits.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0245099&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Jacqueline Howard Robinson De Jesu S-Romero Allison Peipert Tennisha Riley Lauren A Rutter Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces The significance of anxiety symptoms in predicting psychosocial functioning across borderline personality traits. PLoS ONE |
| title | The significance of anxiety symptoms in predicting psychosocial functioning across borderline personality traits. |
| title_full | The significance of anxiety symptoms in predicting psychosocial functioning across borderline personality traits. |
| title_fullStr | The significance of anxiety symptoms in predicting psychosocial functioning across borderline personality traits. |
| title_full_unstemmed | The significance of anxiety symptoms in predicting psychosocial functioning across borderline personality traits. |
| title_short | The significance of anxiety symptoms in predicting psychosocial functioning across borderline personality traits. |
| title_sort | significance of anxiety symptoms in predicting psychosocial functioning across borderline personality traits |
| url | https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0245099&type=printable |
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