Anka A. Vujanovic

TL;DR: The results of this study suggest that the McLean Screening Instrument for Borderline Personality Disorder may be a useful screening instrument for the presence of DSM-IV borderline personality disorder.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors found that more than 50% of sexually abused borderline patients reported being abused both in childhood and in adolescence, on at least a weekly basis, for a minimum of 1 year, by a parent or other person well known to the patient, and by two or more perpetrators.

TL;DR: The theoretical and empirical bases of distress tolerance research are presented and a number of questions regarding its theoretical conceptualization and measurement, associations with related constructs and psychopathology, and role in therapeutic change and intervention remain unanswered.

TL;DR: Examination of the latent dimensional and hierarchical structure of anxiety sensitivity and two key theoretically relevant and related affect (in)tolerance and sensitivity constructs found that AS and distress tolerance appeared to be related to one another as distinct lower-order facets of a common higher-order affect tolerance and sensitivity factor.

TL;DR: The results of this study suggest that both the borderline diagnosis and the symptoms of BPD can be diagnosed reliably when using the DIB-R and suggest that excellent reliability, once achieved, can be maintained over time for both the syndromal and subsyndromal phenomenology of B PD.