The independent contributions of emotion dysregulation and hypermentalization to the “double dissociation” of affective and cognitive empathy in female adolescent inpatients with BPD

Journal of Personality Disorders

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 242-260

  Kalpakci, Allison ^a   Vanwoerden, Salome ^a   Elhai, Jon D ^b   Sharp, Carla ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFFECT; BORDERLINE STATE; CHILD; COGNITION; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; EMOTION; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADOLESCENT; AFFECT; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; CHILD; COGNITION; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84962050584     PISSN: 0885579X     EISSN: 19432763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/pedi_2015_29_192     Document Type: Article

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