Borderline Personality Disorder and Deliberate Self‐Harm: Does Experiential Avoidance Play a Role?
- 1 August 2005
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior
- Vol. 35 (4), 388-399
- https://doi.org/10.1521/suli.2005.35.4.388
Abstract
The theory that borderline personality disorder (BPD) is associated with experiential avoidance, and that experiential avoidance mediates the association between BPD and deliberate, nonsuicidal self-harm was examined. Female inmate participants (N = 105) were given structured diagnostic assessments of BPD, as well as several measures of experiential avoidance. There was a high lifetime prevalence of past self-harm (47.6%). Higher dimensional scores representing BPD severity were associated with higher self-harm frequency and greater experiential avoidance. Structural equation modeling analyses indicated that experiential avoidance did not mediate the association between BPD and self-harm, although thought suppression was associated with self-harm frequency.Keywords
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