Citation

Redondo Rodríguez N, Gomez JLG, Montesino MLC, Munoz-Rivas MJ. Front. Psychol. 2019; 10: e1653.

Affiliation

Department of Biological and Health Psychology, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Frontiers Research Foundation)

DOI

10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01653

PMID

31379680

PMCID

PMC6648580

Abstract

Borderline personality organization (BPO) is a key personality component of some but not all partner-violent men. The study described in this paper examines the psychometric properties of the borderline personality organization scale (BPO Scale; Oldham et al., 1985) in a Spanish sample of 643 men undergoing court-mandated psychological treatment after conviction for episodes of intimate-partner violence. Three confirmatory factor analyses were carried out first, and the three-factor structure of the BPO scale was then tested.

RESULTS for concurrent validity show positive and significant correlations between the subscales and the overall BPO scale, and with other instruments that measure borderline and antisocial personality disorders (ASPDs), and impulsivity. The BPO scale also presents evidence of known-groups validity, since BPO scores decrease with age, and of discriminant validity, as the scale discriminates between participants who do and do not exceed the cutoff point on a borderline personality scale. The BPO Scale is a suitable instrument for evaluating BPO in partner-violent men.

Language: en

Keywords

borderline personality; borderline personality organization; intimate partner violence; psychometric properties; validation