Comparison of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Disorder in Soldiers with the Diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder or Traits with Healthy Soldiers in Tehran, Iran, in 2019.

The aim of the present study was to determine the difference in cognitive emotion regulation between soldiers diagnosed with a borderline personality disorder or traits and healthy soldiers.

The present study was a descriptive cross-sectional and causal-comparative study, which carried out in 2019. The first statistical population consisted of all soldiers referred to the 505 Army Psychiatric Hospital of the Islamic Republic of Iran who had a borderline personality disorder or traits and the second statistical population were healthy soldiers whom they didn’t have any psychological and physical problem. The final sample size was 106 cases in each group, which these 212 cases determined by the Cochran formula. The sampling method was available and demographic questionnaires and Garnefsky Emotional Regularity Questionnaire (CERQ) collected the required data. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics include mean, frequency, percentage and MANOVA by 25th version of SPSS.

The age range of the surveyed soldiers was from 18 to 31 years old (21.98±3.86 and 23.38±2.91). The data analysis results showed that the difference in negative cognitive-emotional strategies between groups with and without borderline personality disorder or traits was statistically significant (P<0.01).

According to the findings of the present study, soldiers with borderline personality disorder or traits are more likely to use negative cognitive emotion strategies than healthy soldiers. In addition, soldiers with borderline personality disorder use less positive emotional-cognitive strategies in comparison with healthy soldiers.