@article{ref1,
title="Hypervigilance in patients with borderline personality disorder: specificity, automaticity, and predictors",
journal="Behaviour research and therapy",
year="2007",
author="Sieswerda, Simkje and Arntz, Arnoud and Mertens, Ingrid and Vertommen, Stefaan",
volume="45",
number="5",
pages="1011-1024",
abstract="According to cognitive theory, an important factor in borderline personality disorder (BPD) is hypervigilance. The aim of the present study was to test whether BPD patients show schema-related biases, and to explore relations with childhood trauma, schemas, and BPD symptoms. Sixteen BPD patients were compared with 18 patients with a cluster C personality disorder, 16 patients with an axis I disorder, and 16 normal controls. An emotional Stroop task was applied with schema-related and unrelated, negative and positive, supra- and subliminal person-related stimuli. BPD patients showed hypervigilance for both negative and positive cues, but were specifically biased towards schema-related negative cues. Predictors were BPD schemas, childhood sexual traumas, and BPD anxiety symptoms. Both BPD and axis I disorder patients showed a trend for a bias for negative schema-related subliminal stimuli. More attention to hypervigilance in BPD is recommended for clinical practice.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0005-7967",
doi="10.1016/j.brat.2006.07.012",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2006.07.012"
}