Depressive Rumination and Attention Disengagement Deficits Maintain Distress in Daily Life Among Those with Elevated Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms

We examined the relationship between attentional inflexibility, dispositional anger and depressive rumination, and distress in daily life of individuals with various BPD symptoms. BPD was associated with attention inflexibility and both rumination types. Depressive rumination solely maintained distress in the daily lives of those with elevated BPD symptoms.