Borderline Personality Disorder: Article Analysis

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Research Article: Impulsivity, Rejection Sensitivity, and Reactions to Stressors in Borderline Personality Disorder.
Authors: Kathy R. Berenson, Wesley Ellen Gregory, Erin Glaser, Aliza Romirowsky, Eshkol Rafaeli, Xiao Yang, Geraldine Downey.

The peer-reviewed article/journal that I chose from the virtual library focuses on impulsivity, rejection sensitivity and reactions to stressors in people diagnosed with borderline personality disorder as compared to healthy individuals and people diagnosed with avoidant personality disorder (Berenson et al., 2016) Initially I chose this article because the subject matter deals with the field of work I'm currently employed in. However, I'm also intrigued with how our behavior (and the behavior
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It was written with an assortment of medical terminology and gave me the impression that if you didn't have a general understanding of the subject it would leave you very confused and with numerous questions. The authors wrote a synopsis at the beginning of the article that allowed me a sneak-peek of what to expect throughout the article. Additionally, there was also a location in the article where informed consent, conflict of interest, and a animal rights section was listed. The conflict of interest section demonstrated to me that none of the authors are biased on the subject so as not to change the outcome of the …show more content…
(Berenson et al., 2016) they are trying to answer the question, do humans value rewards less when they are delivered in the future as opposed to immediately?- or also known as delay discounting. In addition they formed a hypothesis and began their research by recruiting adults based on a set of criteria located in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
They chose APD in comparison to BPD because they are closely related as far as maladaptive behaviors and instability in individual's lives as well as the prevalence of coexisting diagnosis of both