Research Article
The title of the article I am writing about is Borderline Personality Disorder Traits and Sexuality: Bridging a Gap in the Literature. This article was written by Lynnaea Northey, Cara R. Dunkley, E. David Klonsky, and Boris B. Gorzalka. The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality is the professional journal the article was published in, and it was published August 1, 2016. The main issue of the article, or the main topic of the article is about the lack of research done on how sexuality affects people who suffer Borderline Personality Disorder. Borderline Personality Disorder is defined as the “instability in interpersonal relationships, identity, and affect.” The article discusses how childhood experiences affect how people …show more content…
The study wound up proving that the higher BPD levels did in fact have something to do with the higher levels of everything, except that there was significant evidence that borderline personality disorder symptoms had not predicted the risk taking. This essentially means that even though the participants all had high levels of the symptoms, and they could predict what the outcome was going to be for everything based on those levels, the levels of risk taking that the participants said they would do were not predicted by the researchers. This proved that there are more studies that need to be done on this portion of the study. Researchers also had a second hypothesis for the study, wondering if the BPD symptoms would differently predict the outcomes of sexual variables. One of the many borderline personality traits is identity disturbance, and all it is, is that you are unsure of who you are and who you want to be. In most cases, people who suffer from borderline personality disorder would often ask themselves who they were or what they were doing here and why they belonged. Though not stated in the article, I did extra research on borderline personality symptoms and why they occur and I found that most people who suffer from this, especially women, are more …show more content…
There is a system that researchers use called the Personality Assessment Inventory-Borderline Features scale, also known as the PAI-BOR. This system is a 24 item self-report measure on how bad or how good your borderline personality disorder symptoms are. Within this system, there are four major subcategories; affective instability, identity problems, negative relationships, and self-harm. Affective instability consists of things like, “My mood can shift quite suddenly.” This is what was stated on the questionnaire. Identity problems included thoughts like, “My attitude about myself changes a lot.” Negative relationships focused on how healthy relationships with other people are and how often they, the participants suffering with borderline personality disorder, found themselves in healthy relationships, both sexual and non-sexual. Finally, self-harm was talked about, this being from previous data I had stated about women who were abused as children being more likely to abuse someone in a relationship based on past sexual experiences or abuse. Many times, the people suffering from BPD blame themselves for their actions and will inflict pain on themselves to feel better about the bad they have done to other people. In the study, however, this is not the focus of self-harm or self-mutilation, the focus relies solely on how impulsive the participants were to self-destruct on themselves or on
The title of the article I am writing about is Borderline Personality Disorder Traits and Sexuality: Bridging a Gap in the Literature. This article was written by Lynnaea Northey, Cara R. Dunkley, E. David Klonsky, and Boris B. Gorzalka. The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality is the professional journal the article was published in, and it was published August 1, 2016. The main issue of the article, or the main topic of the article is about the lack of research done on how sexuality affects people who suffer Borderline Personality Disorder. Borderline Personality Disorder is defined as the “instability in interpersonal relationships, identity, and affect.” The article discusses how childhood experiences affect how people …show more content…
The study wound up proving that the higher BPD levels did in fact have something to do with the higher levels of everything, except that there was significant evidence that borderline personality disorder symptoms had not predicted the risk taking. This essentially means that even though the participants all had high levels of the symptoms, and they could predict what the outcome was going to be for everything based on those levels, the levels of risk taking that the participants said they would do were not predicted by the researchers. This proved that there are more studies that need to be done on this portion of the study. Researchers also had a second hypothesis for the study, wondering if the BPD symptoms would differently predict the outcomes of sexual variables. One of the many borderline personality traits is identity disturbance, and all it is, is that you are unsure of who you are and who you want to be. In most cases, people who suffer from borderline personality disorder would often ask themselves who they were or what they were doing here and why they belonged. Though not stated in the article, I did extra research on borderline personality symptoms and why they occur and I found that most people who suffer from this, especially women, are more …show more content…
There is a system that researchers use called the Personality Assessment Inventory-Borderline Features scale, also known as the PAI-BOR. This system is a 24 item self-report measure on how bad or how good your borderline personality disorder symptoms are. Within this system, there are four major subcategories; affective instability, identity problems, negative relationships, and self-harm. Affective instability consists of things like, “My mood can shift quite suddenly.” This is what was stated on the questionnaire. Identity problems included thoughts like, “My attitude about myself changes a lot.” Negative relationships focused on how healthy relationships with other people are and how often they, the participants suffering with borderline personality disorder, found themselves in healthy relationships, both sexual and non-sexual. Finally, self-harm was talked about, this being from previous data I had stated about women who were abused as children being more likely to abuse someone in a relationship based on past sexual experiences or abuse. Many times, the people suffering from BPD blame themselves for their actions and will inflict pain on themselves to feel better about the bad they have done to other people. In the study, however, this is not the focus of self-harm or self-mutilation, the focus relies solely on how impulsive the participants were to self-destruct on themselves or on