Borderline Personality Features and Harmful Dysregulated Behavior: The Mediational Effect of Mindfulness

Journal of Clinical Psychology

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 903-911

  Wupperman, Peggilee ^a,b   Fickling, Melissa ^c   Klemanski, David H ^d   Berking, Matthias ^e   Whitman, Jeannie B ^f  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Borderline personality; Dysregulation; Impulsivity; Mindfulness; Self injury; Substance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; AWARENESS; BORDERLINE STATE; COMORBIDITY; DYSREGULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MINDFULNESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF-INJURY; SUBSTANCE;

BORDERLINE PERSONALITY; DYSREGULATION; IMPULSIVITY; MINDFULNESS; SELF-INJURY; SUBSTANCE;

ADULT; AWARENESS; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINDFULNESS; PILOT PROJECTS; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84880698647     PISSN: 00219762     EISSN: 10974679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jclp.21969     Document Type: Article

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