title: Borderline Personality Features in Students: the Predicting Role of Schema, Emotion Regulation, Dissociative Experience and Suicidal Ideation.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Numerous studies have demonstrated that early maladaptive schemas, emotional dysregulation are supposed to be the defining core of borderline personality disorder. Many studies have also found a strong association between the diagnosis of borderline personality and the occurrence of suicide ideation and dissociative symptoms.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The present study was designed to investigate the relationship between borderline personality features and schema, emotion regulation, dissociative experiences and suicidal ideation among high school students in Shiraz City, Iran.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this descriptive correlational study, 300 students (150 boys and 150 girls) were selected from the high schools in Shiraz, Iran, using the multi-stage random sampling. Data were collected using some instruments including borderline personality feature scale for children, young schema questionnaire-short form, difficulties in emotion-regulation scale (DERS), dissociative experience scale and beck suicide ideation scale. Data were analyzed using the Pearson correlation coefficient and multivariate regression analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The results showed a significant positive correlation between schema, emotion regulation, dissociative experiences and suicide ideation with borderline personality features. Moreover, the results of multivariate regression analysis suggested that among the studied variables, schema was the most effective predicting variable of borderline features (P < 0.001).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The findings of this study are in accordance with findings from previous studies, and generally show a meaningful association between schema, emotion regulation, dissociative experiences, and suicide ideation with borderline personality features.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, IR Iran ; Young Researchers and Elite Club, Shiraz, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Seyede Fateme
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Sajadi
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Nasrin
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Arshadi
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Yadolla
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zargar
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Mahnaz
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mehrabizade Honarmand
authors.affiliation: Department of Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
authors.forename: Zahra
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Hajjari
keywords: Borderline Personality Disorder; Dissociative Disorders; Schema; Suicide