Components of emotion dysregulation in borderline personality disorder: A review

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Carpenter, Ryan W ^a   Trull, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective instability; Biosocial theory; Borderline personality disorder; BPD; Distress tolerance; Emotion dysregulation; Emotion regulation; Emotion regulation strategies; Emotion sensitivity; Inadequate appropriate regulation strategies; Maladaptive regulation strategies; Negative affect; Psychiatry

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; AUTOMUTILATION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BORDERLINE STATE; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMOTION DYSREGULATION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EMOTIONALITY; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALADJUSTMENT; MENTAL INSTABILITY; REVIEW; EMOTION; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

AFFECT; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84871161606     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: 15351645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-012-0335-2     Document Type: Review

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