title: Unidirectionality Between Borderline Personality Disorder Traits and Psychopathology in a Residential Addictions Sample: A Short-Term Longitudinal Study.
abstract: Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a barrier to treatment, yet the relationship between BPD features and other psychopathology symptoms in residential addictions treatment samples is understudied. Using a sample of adults enrolled in a residential drug treatment facility measured at baseline and 2-3 month follow-up, the authors examined the prospective relationship between BPD features and five indices of psychopathology: depression, anxiety, interpersonal sensitivity, hostility, and psychoticism, as well as psychopathology global severity. There was no effect of time on any of the forms of psychopathology, but females reported higher levels of BPD features, anxiety symptoms, and interpersonal sensitivity than males. A series of latent change score models indicated that BPD features predicted increases in all psychopathology scales at follow-up, while the reverse was not true. These results suggest that targeting BPD features in residents of drug treatment facilities may reduce the emergence of new psychopathology in the short term.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa.
authors.forename: Troy A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Webber
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa.
authors.forename: Andrew M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Kiselica
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa.
authors.forename: Alejandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Arango
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa.
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rojas
authors.affiliation: Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond.
authors.forename: Michael C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Neale
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa.|Department of Mental Health Law and Policy, University of South Florida, Tampa.
authors.forename: Marina A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Bornovalova
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology; D016739:Behavior, Addictive / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D003863:Depression / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006791:Hostility; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011599:Psychopathology; D012114:Residential Treatment; D017678:Sex Distribution; D066107:Social Skills