Autobiographical Memory andInterpersonal Problem Solving in Iranian Patients WithBorderline Personality Disorder مقالة

Objective: This cross-sectional study aimed to compare the retrieval of autobiographical memory and the problem solving of people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and normal people. Methods: The study population comprised all patients with BPD in Tehran. The study sample consisted of 15 patients with BPD, who referred to Hazrat-e-Rasool Hospital and 15 control group people, who were mostly hospital staff. All participants were asked to complete a demographic questionnaire, means-ends problem solving task, and autobiographical memory test. Data were analyzed by t test and Pearson correlation test. Results: Based on the results, patients with BPD provided less effective solutions (P<0.001) and had more overgeneral memory style in autobiographical memory in response to pleasant, neutral (P<0.05), and unpleasant (P<0.01) cues. Conclusion: More strategies should be provided to retrieve specific memories and provide effective problem solving for patients with BPD.

"Research Paper: Autobiographical Memory and Interpersonal Problem Solving in Iranian Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder CrossMark Ashraf Akbari Dehaghi1, Shima Tamannaeifar2*, Aliasghar Asgharnejad Farid3 1. A study on responding to Autobiographical Mem- ory Test (AMT) (Williams &amp; Broadbent, 1986) exam- ined a sample of 30 female inpatients with BPD with a group of 27 depressed inpatients and a non-clinical group of 30 women. The overgenerality in autobiographical memory has been found to correlate with problem-solving performance (Pol- lock &amp; Williams, 2001) and the prediction of the depression persistence (Dalgleish, Spinks, Yiend, &amp; Kuyken, 2001). Another study (Kremers, Spinhoven, Van der Does, &amp; Van Dyck, 2006) investigated problem solving and autobiographical memory in 78 outpatients with BPD and a control group of 44 patients of BPD who had diagnosis of major depressive disorder. Although some studies investigated autobiographical memory and problem solving in clinical samples such as patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) or PTSD, no study has directly examined the relation-ship between them in patients with BPD. The aim of the pres- ent study was to investigate problem solving capabilities as well as the specificity of autobiographical memory in patients with BPD and control groups. Diagnosis of BPD was verified with a psy- chiatrist based on the semi-structured clinical interview of DSM-IV, Axis II (SCID-II) for personality disorders (First, Spitzer, Gibbon, &amp; Williams, 1995; Sharifi et al. Although some researchers reported positive correla- tions between autobiographical memory specificity and problem solving relevancy ratio (Pollock &amp; Williams 2001), no significant correlation appeared in our findings."