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Borderline Personality Features, Interpersonal Correlates, and Blood Pressure Response to Social Stressors: Implications for Cardiovascular Risk.

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Grove, JL; Smith, TW; Crowell, SE; Williams, PG; Jordan, KD
Published in: Pers Individ Dif
July 15, 2017

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) confers risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD). The present study used the interpersonal perspective to investigate potential mechanisms underlying this association. In two undergraduate samples (N = 293; N = 188) in Study 1, we replicated and extended research by demonstrating that BPD features were associated with hostile and somewhat submissive interpersonal behavior. Further, BPD features were associated with low social support and high levels of interpersonal conflict, two well-established risk factors for CVD. Also, hostile-submissive behavior contributed to the association of BPD features with low social support. In Study 2, we examined associations of BPD features with blood pressure (BP) responses to two interpersonal stressors implicated in models of the effects of stress on CVD, specifically by using laboratory tasks involving interpersonal conflict and evaluative threat in a third undergraduate sample (N = 143). BPD features predicted elevated BP reactivity to conflict but not evaluative threat, and such heightened reactivity previously has been found to predict the development of CVD. The interpersonal perspective may be useful for investigating mechanisms linking BPD to CVD risk, and processes that undermine otherwise protective social support or heighten exposure and reactivity to interpersonal conflict may be relevant in this regard.

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Pers Individ Dif

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0191-8869

Publication Date

July 15, 2017

Volume

113

Start / End Page

38 / 47

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • Social Psychology
  • 5205 Social and personality psychology
  • 5202 Biological psychology
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1701 Psychology
 

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Grove, J. L., Smith, T. W., Crowell, S. E., Williams, P. G., & Jordan, K. D. (2017). Borderline Personality Features, Interpersonal Correlates, and Blood Pressure Response to Social Stressors: Implications for Cardiovascular Risk. Pers Individ Dif, 113, 38–47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.03.005
Grove, Jeremy L., Timothy W. Smith, Sheila E. Crowell, Paula G. Williams, and Kevin D. Jordan. “Borderline Personality Features, Interpersonal Correlates, and Blood Pressure Response to Social Stressors: Implications for Cardiovascular Risk.Pers Individ Dif 113 (July 15, 2017): 38–47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.03.005.
Grove JL, Smith TW, Crowell SE, Williams PG, Jordan KD. Borderline Personality Features, Interpersonal Correlates, and Blood Pressure Response to Social Stressors: Implications for Cardiovascular Risk. Pers Individ Dif. 2017 Jul 15;113:38–47.
Grove, Jeremy L., et al. “Borderline Personality Features, Interpersonal Correlates, and Blood Pressure Response to Social Stressors: Implications for Cardiovascular Risk.Pers Individ Dif, vol. 113, July 2017, pp. 38–47. Pubmed, doi:10.1016/j.paid.2017.03.005.
Grove JL, Smith TW, Crowell SE, Williams PG, Jordan KD. Borderline Personality Features, Interpersonal Correlates, and Blood Pressure Response to Social Stressors: Implications for Cardiovascular Risk. Pers Individ Dif. 2017 Jul 15;113:38–47.
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Published In

Pers Individ Dif

DOI

ISSN

0191-8869

Publication Date

July 15, 2017

Volume

113

Start / End Page

38 / 47

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • Social Psychology
  • 5205 Social and personality psychology
  • 5202 Biological psychology
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1701 Psychology