Emotional dysregulation and Impulsivity between the patients with Major depressive disordervs Borderline personality disorder a Comparative study

Abstract

Major Depressive Disorder is predominately characterized by disordered affect newline(i.e. sustained negative affect, absence of positive affect)and is associated with marked newlinecognitive (e.g. impaired memory and executive control)and behavioral (e.g. social and newlineinter-personal function) deficits, and difficulties in the adequate regulation of emotions. newlineMajor depressive disorder is one of the most prevalent, disabling, and burdensome newlinemental disorders.In spite of the prevalence of such difficulties, there is a lack of research newlineexamining the similarities and differences in specific aspects of emotion dysregulation newlinewithin and across mood disorders. newlineThis study seeks to determine the role emotion dysregulation and impulsivity in newlinepatients with major depressive disorder (N: 184) and borderline personality disorder (N: newline102) and to investigate various aspects of the linkages between emotion dysregulation newlineand impulsivity in these two clinical conditions. This is a hospital-basedcross-sectional newlinestudy carried out by recruitment of subjects from the outpatient services of a private newlinepsychiatric consultation center under the Department of Psychiatry, located at newlineBhubaneswar, Odisha, India. Tools such as: McLean Screening Instrument for newlineBorderline Personality Disorder; Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression; General Health newlineQuestionnaire; Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale; Cognitive Emotion Regulation newlineQuestionnaire; Barratt Impulsiveness Scale and Scale for Suicide Ideation were used to newlinemeasure their emotional dysregulation, impulsivity, and suicidal ideation. Additionally, newlinethe relation of the study variables like emotional dysregulation and impulsivity in major newlinedepressive disorder and borderline personality disorder was also studied about sociodemographic newlinevariables like gender, occupation, and marital status. Ethical considerations newlinewere given due importance. newlineResults showed that borderline personality disorder patients had higher overall newlineemotion dysregulation compared to the major depressive disorder and healthy control newlinegroup. There wa