TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2005//
TI  - Borderline personality disorder and deliberate self-harm: does experiential avoidance play a role?
JO  - Suicide and life-threatening behavior
A1  - Chapman, A. L.
A1  - Specht, Matthew W.
A1  - Cellucci, T.
SP  - 388
EP  - 399
VL  - 35
IS  - 4
N2  - The theory that borderline personality disorder (BPD) is associated with experiential avoidance, and that experiential avoidance mediates the association between BPD and deliberate, nonsuicidal self-harm was examined. Female inmate participants (N = 105) were given structured diagnostic assessments of BPD, as well as several measures of experiential avoidance. There was a high lifetime prevalence of past self-harm (47.6%). Higher dimensional scores representing BPD severity were associated with higher self-harm frequency and greater experiential avoidance. Structural equation modeling analyses indicated that experiential avoidance did not mediate the association between BPD and self-harm, although thought suppression was associated with self-harm frequency.
LA  - 
SN  - 0363-0234
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/suli.2005.35.4.388
ID  - ref1
ER  -