title: Impairments in Object Relations and Chronicity of Suicidal Behavior in Individuals With Borderline Personality Disorder.
abstract: While studies have demonstrated connections between impairments in object relations and self-destructive behaviors in individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD), few have investigated whether these impairments relate to actual suicidal behaviors. The current study utilized the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale-Global Method to investigate object relational functioning and suicidal behaviors in 131 residential treatment patients. Cognitive but not affective aspects of internalized representations predicted past suicidal behavior in BPD subjects; no relationships were found between quality of object representations and suicide in other-PD subjects. Implications of these findings for research, theory, and treatment of suicidal individuals are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York.
authors.forename: Katie C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Lewis
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York.
authors.forename: Kevin B
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Meehan
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York.
authors.forename: Nicole M
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Cain
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York.
authors.forename: Philip S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Wong
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Albany Medical Center, Albany, New York.
authors.forename: A Jill
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Clemence
authors.affiliation: Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Stevens
authors.affiliation: Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Jane G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Tillman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009769:Object Attachment; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D012306:Risk; D057566:Self Report; D012919:Social Behavior; D059020:Suicidal Ideation; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology