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  • Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Personality Psychology

Background:

  • Beliefs about emotion are crucial for emotion regulation.
  • Borderline personality pathology is characterized by emotion dysregulation and impulsivity.
  • Understanding how emotion beliefs fluctuate in daily life is important for clinical applications.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine if beliefs about emotion change across emotional contexts in daily life.
  • To investigate if individuals with borderline personality features experience greater shifts in emotion beliefs during emotional states.
  • To explore the relationship between emotion beliefs, affect, and self-efficacy.

Main Methods:

  • A 1-week ecological momentary assessment (EMA) study was conducted.
  • Undergraduate participants with (n=49) and without borderline features (n=50) provided daily ratings.
  • Data collected included affect, nine emotion beliefs, and self-efficacy indicators.

Main Results:

  • Most beliefs about emotion shifted with positive or negative affect.
  • Emotion beliefs predicted momentary self-efficacy for distress tolerance and willpower.
  • Individuals with borderline features exhibited greater belief instability.
  • Borderline features moderated the associations between affect and emotion beliefs.

Conclusions:

  • Emotion beliefs are relatively schematic but can shift with affective states.
  • Greater belief instability in borderline personality pathology has implications for emotion regulation.
  • Findings highlight the importance of addressing emotion beliefs in individuals with borderline personality features.