Faculty Publications
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Published Version
Keywords
Attitudes, Attribution questionnaire, Emotional, Gender, Mental illness, Vignettes
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Psychiatry Research Communications
Volume
4
Issue
2
Abstract
Despite high public stigma towards individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD), no research has examined whether stigma differs among the various proposed BPD subtypes. The primary purpose of this research was to examine two potential contributors to stigma towards individuals with BPD: 1) gender, and 2) BPD subtype of the individuals. The three subtypes utilized in this study were emotional, low anxiety, and inhibited (Sleuwaegen, 2018). A total of 415 participants read 1 of 6 randomly assigned vignettes about an individual and then completed the Attribution Questionnaire which encompasses 6 aspects of stigma. Male individuals (featured in a vignette) led to greater overall and 5 aspects of stigma than female individuals. Higher public stigma was also expressed towards individuals with the emotional subtype for overall and 4 aspects of stigma than the other subtypes. The aggression portrayed in the emotional subtype may be a particularly worthy area of investigation, given the potential for over-appraisal of threat to one's personal safety. The findings here suggest that accurate portrayals of BPD need to be infused in education or contact anti-stigma interventions.
Department
Department of Psychology
Original Publication Date
6-1-2024
Object Description
1 PDF File
DOI of published version
10.1016/j.psycom.2024.100176
Repository
UNI ScholarWorks, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa
Copyright
© 2024 The Author. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bync/ 4.0/).
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Brown, Seth A., "Borderline Personality Disorder Subtypes and Public Stigma" (2024). Faculty Publications. 5979.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/facpub/5979
Comments
First published in Psychiatry Research Communications, v4i2 (Jun 2024) published by Elsevier B.V. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psycom.2024.100176