The centrality of affective instability and identity in Borderline Personality Disorder: Evidence from network analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2017, Pages

  Richetin, Juliette ^a   Preti, Emanuele ^a,b   Costantini, Giulio ^a   De Panfilis, Chiara ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b Personality Disorders Lab   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANGER; ARTICLE; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER CHECKLIST; BORDERLINE STATE; CENTRALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; EFFORTS TO AVOID ABANDONMENT; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEMALE; FUSED GRAPHICAL LASSO; HOPELESSNESS; HUMAN; IDENTITY; IDENTITY DISTURBANCE; IMPULSIVENESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL DISEASE ASSESSMENT; MENTAL INSTABILITY; MOOD DISORDER; PARANOIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; UNSTABLE RELATIONSHIP; ADOLESCENT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLASSIFICATION; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; DEPRESSION; MIDDLE AGED; NARCISSISM; OBSESSION; PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE PERSONALITY DISORDER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AGED; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEPENDENCY (PSYCHOLOGY); DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IDENTITY CRISIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARCISSISM; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); OBSESSIVE BEHAVIOR; PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE PERSONALITY DISORDER; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES;

EID: 85031798245     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0186695     Document Type: Article

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