How does mindfulness skills training work to improve emotion dysregulation in borderline personality disorder?
Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation September 2, 2024 Carlos Schmidt, Joaquim Soler, Daniel Vega et al. 10 citations
Mindfulness skills training, a core part of Dialectical Behavior Therapy for borderline personality disorder, improves emotion dysregulation through specific mechanisms. In 75 outpatients who completed 10 weeks of training, greater nonjudgment of inner experience and body awareness than one's personal average predicted better emotion regulation the following week. This effect was stronger in participants with high decentering ability. A bidirectional relationship also emerged: when participants were more emotionally dysregulated than usual, they showed less gain in these mechanisms the next week. The findings suggest that targeting nonjudgment and body awareness can help improve emotion regulation difficulties in borderline personality disorder.