Borderline Personality Disorder: A Literature Review
Phenomenological Perspective on the causes of Non-suicidal Self-injury in Borderline Personality Disorder
Brett Hoffman
Bradley University
ENC602
CHAPTER II
LITERATURE REVIEW
Introduction
The emphasis of Chapter 2 will be a review of the literature pertaining to emotional dysregulation and the cognitive processes that are involved in Borderline Personality Disorder. Relevant models will be examined to set the framework for emotional dysregulation leading to behavioral dysregulation. Common themes in the reviewed literature will be defined and discussed pertaining BPD and the causes of non-suicidal self-injury.
Interpersonal Issues
A study conducted by Wedig, Frankenburg, Reich, Fitzmaurice and Zanarini (2013) examined the predictors of suicide threats, which includes non-suicidal self-injury behavior. …show more content…
A study done by Suvak et al., (2011) examined emotion dysregulation further with a focus on emotional granularity. Emotional granularity is described as the ability to distinguish between two emotional states (Suvak et al., 2011). Individuals displaying high emotional granularity are able to distinguish between two emotions (sadness being easily distinguished from anger), while low emotional granularity individuals have difficulties distinguishing between two emotions (negative states globally represented as “feeling bad”) (Suvak et al., 2011). Suvak et al. (2011) hypothesized that in individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder representations of emotions would be strongly influenced by the individual’s hedonic tone (pleasant vs. unpleasantness) and less influenced by arousal (activated or deactivated). Suvak et al. (2011) define valance focus as the “degree to which information about the valence (unpleasantness and pleasantness) is contained in representations of emotions”, while arousal focus was defined as “the amount of information about arousal or intensity that is contained in representations of emotions” (P.
Brett Hoffman
Bradley University
ENC602
CHAPTER II
LITERATURE REVIEW
Introduction
The emphasis of Chapter 2 will be a review of the literature pertaining to emotional dysregulation and the cognitive processes that are involved in Borderline Personality Disorder. Relevant models will be examined to set the framework for emotional dysregulation leading to behavioral dysregulation. Common themes in the reviewed literature will be defined and discussed pertaining BPD and the causes of non-suicidal self-injury.
Interpersonal Issues
A study conducted by Wedig, Frankenburg, Reich, Fitzmaurice and Zanarini (2013) examined the predictors of suicide threats, which includes non-suicidal self-injury behavior. …show more content…
A study done by Suvak et al., (2011) examined emotion dysregulation further with a focus on emotional granularity. Emotional granularity is described as the ability to distinguish between two emotional states (Suvak et al., 2011). Individuals displaying high emotional granularity are able to distinguish between two emotions (sadness being easily distinguished from anger), while low emotional granularity individuals have difficulties distinguishing between two emotions (negative states globally represented as “feeling bad”) (Suvak et al., 2011). Suvak et al. (2011) hypothesized that in individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder representations of emotions would be strongly influenced by the individual’s hedonic tone (pleasant vs. unpleasantness) and less influenced by arousal (activated or deactivated). Suvak et al. (2011) define valance focus as the “degree to which information about the valence (unpleasantness and pleasantness) is contained in representations of emotions”, while arousal focus was defined as “the amount of information about arousal or intensity that is contained in representations of emotions” (P.