The effects of emotional invalidation & childhood abuse on BPD (leads to more primitive defense styles & endorsement of depressed mood).
I want to run a correlation between perceived history of abuse during childhood with the Defense Styles Questionnaire (DSQ) and a mood measurement (not sure which one yet) and another correlation between emotional invalidation and the DSQ and mood measurement. I want to conduct an experiment for the emotional invalidation variable. I was thinking of having participants read statements and telling them to think of their partner or someone they had strong feelings for in the past, and to imagine the statements were coming from them (if anyone has a better idea for what to tell participants please let me know). There would be 4 groups: (1) more negative "invalidating" comments than positive, (2), more positive than negative, (3) neutral comments, and (4) even distribution of positive and negative. My hypothesis is that the more emotional invalidation the participants (who will ideally be a clinical population with a diagnosis of BPD) are exposed to, their DSQ will reflect higher levels of primitive defenses and their mood assessment will reflect higher levels of negative affect than the other groups. And my second hypothesis is that higher levels of reported perceived childhood abuse will be associated with even higher levels of primitive defenses and negative affect than the participants who reported less childhood abuse. Does anyone have any opinions, thoughts, ideas?
Dear mandy,
the first thing to do is though to read everything available about DSQ and BDP and abuse:
Article Psychological Defense Styles in Women Who Report Childhood S...
Article Dopamine D2 Receptor Gene (DRD2) Haplotypes and the Defense ...
Article Influence of childhood adversities and defense styles on the...
Article Defense Styles and Borderline Personality Disorder
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