TY - JOUR
T1 - Borderline personality disorder symptoms and pain in college students
T2 - The role of emotional suppression
AU - Dixon-Gordon, Katherine L.
AU - Berghoff, Christopher R.
AU - McDermott, Michael J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 The Guilford Press.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is associated with higher rates of pain conditions and greater pain impairment. Past research implicates emotional suppression in acute pain tolerance; thus, emotional suppression may contribute to pain interference among those with high BPD features. Participants were 89 university students who completed measures of BPD features, and complied with 2-week daily diary procedures assessing suppression of emotional thoughts associated with social and nonsocial stressors, distress, pain severity, and interference. Multilevel models revealed a BPD × Suppression × Distress interaction, such that suppression in response to social (but not nonsocial) stressors in the context of high distress was related to pain interference when controlling for pain severity among those with high, but not low, BPD features. These findings suggest that suppression of emotionally relevant thoughts in response to high distress may contribute to the functional impairment from pain among those with high BPD symptoms.
AB - Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is associated with higher rates of pain conditions and greater pain impairment. Past research implicates emotional suppression in acute pain tolerance; thus, emotional suppression may contribute to pain interference among those with high BPD features. Participants were 89 university students who completed measures of BPD features, and complied with 2-week daily diary procedures assessing suppression of emotional thoughts associated with social and nonsocial stressors, distress, pain severity, and interference. Multilevel models revealed a BPD × Suppression × Distress interaction, such that suppression in response to social (but not nonsocial) stressors in the context of high distress was related to pain interference when controlling for pain severity among those with high, but not low, BPD features. These findings suggest that suppression of emotionally relevant thoughts in response to high distress may contribute to the functional impairment from pain among those with high BPD symptoms.
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U2 - 10.1521/pedi_2017_31_300
DO - 10.1521/pedi_2017_31_300
M3 - Article
C2 - 28604278
AN - SCOPUS:85044338675
SN - 0885-579X
VL - 32
SP - 277
EP - 288
JO - Journal of Personality Disorders
JF - Journal of Personality Disorders
IS - 2
ER -