Role of Emotion Regulation Strategies in the Prediction of Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) and its characteristic symptoms such as emotional symptoms، inappropriate، intense anger and difficulty in anger management، a pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships، impulsivity، recurrent suicidal behavior and self-injury can pose major difficulties for emotion regulation as the capability to experience and convey the emotions. Therefore، the research aims at determining the role of emotion regulation strategies in predicting the borderline personality disorder symptoms in a non-clinical population. Hence، a sample of 317 (m=220، f=97) was selected using stratified sampling and tested with regard to emotion regulation and borderline personality traits. Multivariate regression analysis indicated that cognitive reappraisal is inversely correlated to severe dissociative symptoms، impulsivity and hopelessness. Moreover، results revealed that reappraisal predicted 11 percent of the total variance and 8، 6 and 10 percent of the hopelessness variance، impulsivity variance and dissociative symptoms variance، respectively. Results also find support for the predictive value of emotion regulation as an important psychological construct and may be taken into consideration to reduce the borderline personality symptoms in clinical preventions.