What Stands between Self-disgust and Borderline Features? The need to cultivate self-compassion in adolescents from Portugal

• Autor(a) principal: Carreiras, Diogo
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Castilho, Paula, Cunha, Marina
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/Carreiras, D., Castilho, P., & Cunha, M. (2021). O que se entrep?e entre a auto-avers?o e os tra?os borderline? A necessidade de cultivar autocompaix?o em adolescentes de Portugal. Psychologica, 64(2), 51-64. https://doi.org/10.14195/1647-8606_64-2_2; https://doi.org/10.14195/1647-8606_64-2_2
• topic: Adolescentes - Adolescents; Tra?os borderline - Borderline features; Autocompaix?o - Self-compassion; Autoavers?o - Self-disgust; Media??o - Mediation

A Pertuba??o Borderline da Personalidade (PBP) ? caracterizada por instabilidade emocional, relacionamentos int?veis, sentimentos de abandono e vazio, impulsividade e auto-dano. Uma auto-imagem inst?vel ? tamb?m uma caracter?stica borderline comum, muitas vezes marcada por auto-criticismo, auto-?dio e sentido de avers?o direcionados a aspetos do eu. Considerando o percurso desenvolvimental da PBP, ? essencial agir em idades precoces com adolescentes que denotam tra?os borderline crescentes e persistentes. Este estudo procurou testar o papel mediador da auto-compaix?o na rela??o entre a auto-avers?o e tra?os borderline em adolescentes portugueses. Os participantes foram 655 adolescentes (381 raparigas e 274 rapazes) com uma m?dia de idade de 15.58 anos (DP = 1.51), que completaram question?rios de autorresposta na escola. Os dados foram analizados atrav?s do SPSS e PROCESS Macro para realizar estat?sticas descritivas, compara??es, correla??es e regress?es. Os resultados mostraram que a autocompaix?o mediou a rela??o entre a auto-avers?o e os tra?os borderline. O modelo de media??o explicou 51% dos tra?os borderline e o g?nero foi inclu?do como covari?vel, uma vez que as raparigas apresentaram maior auto-avers?o e tra?os borderline e menor autocompaix?o do que os rapazes. Estes resultados indicam que cultivar compet?ncias auto-compassivas em adolescentes pode ser um potencial mecanismo de regula??o positivo para o efeito da auto-avers?o nos tra?os borderline. / Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by emotional instability, unstable relationships, feelings of abandonment and emptiness, impulsivity, and self-harm. An unstable self-image is also a common borderline feature, often marked by self-criticism, self-hate and feeling of disgust towards aspects of the self. Considering the developmental path of BPD, it is essential to act at early ages with adolescents that show growing and persistent borderline features. The present study aimed to test the mediation role of self-compassion in the relationship between self-disgust and borderline features in Portuguese adolescents. Participants were 655 adolescents (381 girls and 274 boys) with an average of 15.58 years old (SD = 1.51), who completed self-report questionnaires at school. Data were analyzed through SPSS and PROCESS Macro to perform descriptive statistics, comparisons, correlations and regressions. Results showed that self-compassion mediated the relationship between self-disgust and borderline features. The mediation model explained 51% of borderline features and gender was used as a covariate, considering that girls exhibited higher self-disgust and borderline features, and lower self-compassion than boys. These findings indicate that cultivating self-compassion skills in adolescents could be a potential positive regulation mechanism for self-disgust?s effect on borderline features.