The Discriminant Analysis of Individuals with Borderline Personality Syndrome from Individuals Without Borderline Personality Syndrome Based on Attachment Style, Defense Mechanisms and Object relations

This study aimed to assess the discriminant analysis of individuals with borderline personality syndrome from individuals without borderline personality syndrome based on attachment style, defense mechanisms, and object relations.

This study was conducted with a expos-facto design. Statistical society included undergraduate students of Islamic Azad University of Bojnourd who were studying in the first semester of the academic year 2018-2019. A sample of 44 subjects with  borderline personality syndromes and 44 normal persons were selected based on the inclusion criteria and answered the research questionnaires.

The results showed that individuals with borderline personality disorder syndrome can be discriminated from individuals without borderline personality syndrome based on avoidant and ambivalent attachment, underdeveloped and neurotic defense mechanisms, social incompetence, introversion, insecurity and alienation.

People with borderline personality syndrome have underdeveloped mechanisms, insecure attachment style and impared object relations. The screening and evaluation of individuals to prevent further pathology, as well as, consideration in counseling and psychotherapy sessions is necessary.