Affective Startle Modulation in Incarcerated Women With Borderline Personality Disorder Features

作者：Vitale Jennifer E^*; Newman Joseph P

来源：Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment , 2012, 3(2): 155-166.

DOI：10.1037/a0025554

• borderline personality
• female offenders
• affective startle modulation
• emotion processing

Affective startle modulation was assessed in a sample of Caucasian female offenders classified as exhibiting high levels of borderline personality disorder (BPD) features (n = 19) or low levels of BPD features (n = 43) using the Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines-Revised (DIB-R; Zanarini, Gunderson, Frankenburg, & Chauncey, 1989). Contrary to prediction, high-BPD feature participants did not show significantly greater startle blink magnitudes than controls while viewing unpleasant pictures at either a short (2 s) or long (4.5 s) probe time. High-BPD feature participants did show significant blink attenuation while viewing pleasant pictures at the short probe time. The role of attention and the relative specificity of the negative emotion-processing abnormalities exhibited by women with BPD are discussed.

• 出版日期2012-4