title: Individual differences in components of impulsivity and effortful control moderate the relation between borderline personality disorder traits and emotion recognition in a sample of university students.
abstract: Dysfunctions in social cognition characterize personality disorders. However, mixed results emerged from literature on emotion processing. Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) traits are either associated with enhanced emotion recognition, impairments, or equal functioning compared to controls. These apparent contradictions might result from the complexity of emotion recognition tasks used and from individual differences in impulsivity and effortful control. We conducted a study in a sample of undergraduate students (n=80), assessing BPD traits, using an emotion recognition task that requires the processing of only visual information or both visual and acoustic information. We also measured individual differences in impulsivity and effortful control. Results demonstrated the moderating role of some components of impulsivity and effortful control on the capability of BPD traits in predicting anger and happiness recognition. We organized the discussion around the interaction between different components of regulatory functioning and task complexity for a better understanding of emotion recognition in BPD samples.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca, Piazza dell'Ateneo Nuovo 1, 20126 Milano, Italy; Personality Disorders Lab, Parma-Milan, Borgo Giacomo Tommasini, 18 43121 Parma, Italy. Electronic address: emanuele.preti@unimib.it.
authors.forename: Emanuele
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Preti
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca, Piazza dell'Ateneo Nuovo 1, 20126 Milano, Italy.
authors.forename: Juliette
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Richetin
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca, Piazza dell'Ateneo Nuovo 1, 20126 Milano, Italy.
authors.forename: Chiara
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Suttora
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca, Piazza dell'Ateneo Nuovo 1, 20126 Milano, Italy.
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pisani
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000786:Anger; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D004644:Emotions; D000066499:Facial Recognition; D005260:Female; D006240:Happiness; D006801:Humans; D007175:Impulsive Behavior; D007206:Individuality; D008297:Male; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D014495:Universities; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Anger; Borderline personality disorder; Emotion recognition; Happiness; Multimodal; Prosodic prime; Regulatory functioning