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O Viés da atenção para estímulos emocionais de acordo com a presença de sintomatologia Borderline
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Os sujeitos com sintomatologia borderline da personalidade apresentam um
padrão de funcionamento instável com desregulação emocional e interferência nas
relações interpessoais. Alguns estudos oriundos da psicologia cognitiva sugerem a
presença de vieses cognitivos na base das dificuldades de regulação de emoções
frequentemente observada nestes sujeitos. Os autores dividiram-se entre duas principais
teorias: Teoria da Hipervigilância, (face a estímulos negativos idiossincráticos
borderline) e a Teoria da Hiper-reatividade (face a todo o tipo de estímulos
emocionais). Recentemente, uma meta-análise evidenciou a supremacia da
hipervigilância, no entanto os autores deixaram claro a importância de se continuar a
estudar o viés atencional na sintomatologia borderline, porque os estudos que existem
sobre o tema são em número bastante reduzido. Revelaram ainda a importância de estudar
o trauma infantil, como base da sintomatologia borderline.
Assim tivemos como principal objetivo, observar a associação entre medidas de
autorrelato para avaliação da sintomatologia borderline e as medidas proporcionadas pela
tarefa de Stroop Emocional. Para o efeito, testámos 79 estudantes universitários
portugueses, com idades compreendidas entre os 18 e os 26 anos de idade com um
paradigma de Stroop emocional. Através de 15 participantes da amostra inicial realizámos
ainda uma associação entre a sintomatologia borderline e o trauma infantil.
Os nossos principais resultados sugerem que maior sintomatologia borderline
está associada a maiores níveis de interferência, viés atencional a estímulos negativos
idiossincráticos da perturbação borderline, congruente com a teoria da hipervigilância.
Maiores níveis de trauma infantil, também forma associados a maiores níveis de
sintomatologia borderline.
Subjects with borderline personality symptoms show an unstable pattern of functioning with emotional dysregulation and interference in interpersonal relationships. Some studies from cognitive psychology suggest the presence of cognitive biases at the root of the difficulties in emotion regulation often observed in these subjects. The authors have divided themselves between two main theories: Hypervigilance, (to idiosyncratic borderline negative stimuli) and that of hyperreactivity, to all kinds of emotional stimuli. Recently, a meta-analysis showed the supremacy of hypervigilance, but the authors made clear the importance of continuing to study the attentional bias in borderline symptoms, because the number of studies that exist on the subject is quite small. They also revealed the importance of studying childhood trauma as the basis of borderline symptoms. Thus, our main objective was to observe the association between self-report measures of borderline symptoms and the measures provided by the Emotional Stroop task. For this purpose, we tested 79 Portuguese college students, aged between 18 and 26 years old, with an Emotional Stroop paradigm. Through 15 participants of the initial sample we also performed an association between borderline symptomatology and childhood trauma. Our main results suggest that greater borderline symptomatology is associated with higher levels of interference, attentional bias to idiosyncratic negative stimuli of the borderline disorder, congruent with hypervigilance theory. Higher levels of childhood trauma, also form associated with higher levels of borderline symptomatology.
Subjects with borderline personality symptoms show an unstable pattern of functioning with emotional dysregulation and interference in interpersonal relationships. Some studies from cognitive psychology suggest the presence of cognitive biases at the root of the difficulties in emotion regulation often observed in these subjects. The authors have divided themselves between two main theories: Hypervigilance, (to idiosyncratic borderline negative stimuli) and that of hyperreactivity, to all kinds of emotional stimuli. Recently, a meta-analysis showed the supremacy of hypervigilance, but the authors made clear the importance of continuing to study the attentional bias in borderline symptoms, because the number of studies that exist on the subject is quite small. They also revealed the importance of studying childhood trauma as the basis of borderline symptoms. Thus, our main objective was to observe the association between self-report measures of borderline symptoms and the measures provided by the Emotional Stroop task. For this purpose, we tested 79 Portuguese college students, aged between 18 and 26 years old, with an Emotional Stroop paradigm. Through 15 participants of the initial sample we also performed an association between borderline symptomatology and childhood trauma. Our main results suggest that greater borderline symptomatology is associated with higher levels of interference, attentional bias to idiosyncratic negative stimuli of the borderline disorder, congruent with hypervigilance theory. Higher levels of childhood trauma, also form associated with higher levels of borderline symptomatology.
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Sintomatologia borderline de personalidade Regulação emocional Viés atencional