Title of article
Prediction borderline personality disorders relay on negative life events
Author/Authors
Khabir, Leila Dept. of Clinical Psychology - Faculty of Education and Psychology - University of Shiraz - Shiraz, Iran , Fallahzadeh, Maryam Dept. of Clinical Psychology - Faculty of Education and Psychology - University of Shiraz - Shiraz, Iran , Mohamadi, Nourollah Dept. of Clinical Psychology - Faculty of Education and Psychology - University of Shiraz - Shiraz, Iran
Pages
6
From page
43
To page
48
Abstract
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a chronic condition that warrants further empirical investigation. The aim of this research was to investigate prediction of BPD symptomatology relay on recent life experience.
Methods: Data for the current study was collected from students of Shiraz university. Sample consisted of 120 undergraduate students. The ages of the sample ranged from 18-26 with an average age of 19.55. Forty-four participants were men (36.6%) and fifty-six participants were women (46.6%). Instruments were used in this study include: Inventory of College Students’ Recent Life Experience (ICSRLE; Kohn, Lafreniere, & Gurevich, 1990) and Five-Factor Borderline Personality Inventory (FFBI; Mullins-Sweatt et al., 2012).
Results: Revealed non-significant effects for gender on total borderline personality scores, five subscales of FFBI and negative life events. Also these results showed negative life events predicted borderline personality traits.
Conclusion: Negative life events could predict borderline personality traits.
Declaration of Interest: None.
Keywords
Students , Psychological Trauma , Borderline Personality Disorder
Journal title
Astroparticle Physics
Serial Year
2015
Record number
2451932
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