Study of dimensions of personality pathology and cognitive abilities in people with borderline personality disorder

The aims of this study to investigate dimensions of personality pathology and cognitive abilities in people with borderline personality disorder. And survey research methodology has been used. The statistical population of this study consists of all individuals with borderline personality disorder from medical centers and psychiatric centers affiliated to the Well-being organization of Alborz province. And the purposive or objective sampling method was applied. According to the Krejcie and Morgan table the sample size was considered 120 people. To collect data, the Dimensional Assessment of Personality Pathology Questionnaire (1392) and the cognitive abilities assessment scale from the third edition of the cognitive abilities scale of Woodcock-Johnson (2013) were used. In the end, the data were analyzed using the one-group t-test. Findings of the research indicate that the abilities such as verbal comprehension, mixing sounds, inverting digits, incomplete words comprehension, and active auditory memory in people with borderline personality disorder are lower than average and expected level. And abilities such as Audiovisuals Learning, Spatial relations, Concept Formation, Visual adaptation, latent audio visual learning are around average (expected level) in these people.