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Borderline Personality Disorder: Neo-Personality Inventory Ratings of Patients and Their Family Members

Perry D. Hoffman, PhD

The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder, New York, USA, phdhoffman{at}aol.com

Ellie Buteau, PhD

Social Research Solutions, Cambridge, MA, USA

Alan E. Fruzzetti, PhD

Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Research Program, Department of Psychology 298, University of Nevada Reno, Nevada, USA

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is hallmarked by interpersonal problems. Conflicts with family members are no exception.

Methods: The NEO-Personality Inventory was administered to 25 pairs of patients and their family members. Both completed the questionnaire twice, responding about their own personality traits and responding about personality traits of the other.

Results: Patients and family members agreed on all five of the patient's personality traits. However, patients perceived the family members as being more neurotic, less extraverted and less open than the family members perceived themselves.

Conclusions: Discrepant perceptions of personality traits `may' create different relationship expectations and thus contribute to and intensify interpersonal difficulties.

Key Words: Borderline personality disorder • family perceptions • NEO-Personality Inventory

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, Vol. 53, No. 3, 204-215 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0020764006074924
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