TY - JOUR
T1 - Metacognition of daily self-regulation processes and personality traits in borderline personality disorder
AU - Vega, Daniel
AU - Torrubia, Rafael
AU - Marco-Pallarés, Josep
AU - Soto, Angel
AU - Rodriguez-Fornells, Antoni
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier B.V.
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Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/4/15
Y1 - 2020/4/15
N2 - Background: Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) are characterized by impoverished self-regulatory mechanisms and self-image distortions. An intriguing question is to what extent BPD individuals develop accurate perceptions of their self-regulatory everyday functioning. Here, we tackle this issue evaluating their metacognitive abilities. Methods: One hundred and forty-four participants were enrolled in the study and divided into a BPD group and a healthy Control group, with each consisting of 36 participants paired with their corresponding close relatives. We compared self-report evaluations of the participants’ self-regulatory processes in daily-life activities and personality traits with external perceptions by close relatives, as a measure of metacognition. The ratings from participants and their informants were compared using an ANCOVA profile analysis. Results: Self-report results showed poor self-regulation ability in the daily environment as well as extreme scores in personality-traits in the BPD group in comparison with healthy participants. Further, in the BPD group we found a clear discrepancy between the information provided by patients and their close relatives regarding the processes involved in self-regulation of daily-life activities (but not for personality traits). This discrepancy was related to their clinical status and was not observed in the healthy control group. Limitations: Analysis was based on self-report data, focusing on the difference with informants reports only. Conclusions about the direction of a possible bias on participants’ self-perception are limited. Conclusions: Metacognitive deficits might play a key mediating role between the altered cognitive processes responsible for self-regulation and cognitive control and the daily-life consequences in BPD.
AB - Background: Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) are characterized by impoverished self-regulatory mechanisms and self-image distortions. An intriguing question is to what extent BPD individuals develop accurate perceptions of their self-regulatory everyday functioning. Here, we tackle this issue evaluating their metacognitive abilities. Methods: One hundred and forty-four participants were enrolled in the study and divided into a BPD group and a healthy Control group, with each consisting of 36 participants paired with their corresponding close relatives. We compared self-report evaluations of the participants’ self-regulatory processes in daily-life activities and personality traits with external perceptions by close relatives, as a measure of metacognition. The ratings from participants and their informants were compared using an ANCOVA profile analysis. Results: Self-report results showed poor self-regulation ability in the daily environment as well as extreme scores in personality-traits in the BPD group in comparison with healthy participants. Further, in the BPD group we found a clear discrepancy between the information provided by patients and their close relatives regarding the processes involved in self-regulation of daily-life activities (but not for personality traits). This discrepancy was related to their clinical status and was not observed in the healthy control group. Limitations: Analysis was based on self-report data, focusing on the difference with informants reports only. Conclusions about the direction of a possible bias on participants’ self-perception are limited. Conclusions: Metacognitive deficits might play a key mediating role between the altered cognitive processes responsible for self-regulation and cognitive control and the daily-life consequences in BPD.
KW - Borderline personality disorder
KW - Everyday functioning
KW - Executive functions
KW - Metacognition
KW - Self-image
KW - Self-regulation
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jad.2020.02.033
DO - 10.1016/j.jad.2020.02.033
M3 - Article
C2 - 32217224
AN - SCOPUS:85079885302
SN - 0165-0327
VL - 267
SP - 243
EP - 250
JO - Journal of Affective Disorders
JF - Journal of Affective Disorders
ER -