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KMID : 0981220140140010079
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Congnitive Behavior Therapy in Korea
2014 Volume.14 No. 1 p.79 ~ p.101
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Dichotomous Thinking and Unidimensional Thinking in Young Adults with Borderline Personality Disorder Features
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Kang Hee-Myong
Lee Young-Ho
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Abstract
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This study set out to investigate the dichotomous thinking of individuals with BPD tendency. For that purpose, total 678 college students(298 men and 380 women) were divided into the borderline, avoidant, and control group and presented with interpersonal situation scenarios. Total six different scenarios(refusal, abandonment, invalidating, caring, a negative event, a neutral event) were presented to cause dichotomous thinking, and the subjects were asked to assess characters in the scenarios. As a result, the borderline group exhibited more dichotomous thinking in the assessment of characters in the borderline-specific emotional topics(abandonment, refusal, and invalidating) than the avoidant and control group. The borderline group also engaged in more dichotomous thinking in the scenarios of caring, which is one of the borderline-specific emotional topics, the negative event of nonspecific topic, and the neutral event than the control group with no difference from the avoidant group. Then the borderline group was examined for its uni-dimensional and multi-dimensional thinking tendency. As a result of comparison of uni-dimensional positive-negative thinking scores among the groups, the borderline group did more uni-dimensional thinking in the assessment of characters in the abandonment and refusal scenarios than the avoidance and control group. As for dichotomous thinking scores according to the areas, the borderline group did more dichotomous thinking in the ability-character and emotionality area on the borderline-specific emotional topics(refusal, abandonment, and invalidating) than the avoidant and control group. Based on these results, the implications and limitations of this study were discussed.
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KEYWORD
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borderline personality disorder, dichotomous thinking, unidimensional thinking, early maladaptive schema
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