Perceived Emotional Invalidation and Borderline Personality Features: The Mediating Role Self-Reflection

We examined self-reflection as a mediator between emotional invalidation and borderline personality disorder (BPD), cross-sectionally. Recent invalidation was associated with greater self-reflection, which in turn was associated with higher BPD symptom severity. Self-insight did not moderate the relations between self-reflection and BPD, nor the direct effect of invalidation on BPD.