@article{ref1,
title="Relationship Quality and Stability in Couples When One Partner Suffers From Borderline Personality Disorder",
journal="Journal of marital and family therapy",
year="2009",
author="Bouchard, Sébastien and Sabourin, Stephane and Lussier, Yvan and Villeneuve, Evens",
volume="35",
number="4",
pages="446-455",
abstract="The main goal of the present study was to examine and compare the psychosocial functioning of 35 couples including a woman diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) to that of a nonclinical control sample of 35 couples. The BPD status of women from the clinical group and the prevalence of personality disorder in their partner were ascertained through the SCID-II. Participants completed self-report measures of couple functioning. A majority of couples in which the woman suffered from BPD (68.7%) evidenced frequent episodes of breakups and reconciliations and, over an 18-month period, nearly 30% of these couples dissolved their relationship. Nearly half of the men involved in a romantic relationship with a woman suffering from BPD met criteria for one personality disorder or more. As compared with nonclinical couples, clinical couples showed lower marital satisfaction, higher attachment insecurity, more demand/withdraw communication problems, and higher levels of violence.<p />",
language="",
issn="0194-472X",
doi="10.1111/j.1752-0606.2009.00151.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-0606.2009.00151.x"
}