PhD Scientific Days 2022

Mental Health Sciences II. (Poster discussion will take place in the Aula during the Coffee Break)

Body image and body schema in borderline personality disorder

Előadó neve

Dorottya, Szily

Előadó munkahelye

Semmelweis University Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy

Előadó telefonszáma

06303436655

Előadó e-mail címe

szidorottya@gmail.com

Az előadás címe

Body image and body schema in borderline personality disorder

Szerző(k) neve és munkahelye

Szily Dorottya, Semmelweis University Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Prof. Dr. Unoka Zsolt, Semmelweis University Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Dr. S. Nagy Zita Országos Orvosi Rehabilitációs Intézet
Kelemen Rebeka, Természettudományi Kutatóközpont

Bemutatás módja

Poszter

Szekció

Mental Health Sciences II. (Poster discussion will take place in the Aula during the Coffee Break)

Language of the presentation

Hungarian

Preferred session

Mental Sciences

Összefoglaló szövege

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a disease that affects personality structure. It affects the patient's self-image, which includes the body image. The association between BPD and body dysmorphic disorder is particularly common. The first elements that shape the structure of a personality are thought to develop at a very early stage in life. Most people agree that the initial elements of personality development may be closely related to body-related experiences and movements. The mental imaging that emerges from these experiences is the body schema.
According to this, we hypothesized that in BPD, as it is a structural disorder affecting personality structure, we will not only find negative attitudeto their body, but we will also find differences in body schemas compared to healthy individuals.
Our study included 31 patients diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (25 women, 6 men) and 30 healthy individuals (19 women and 11 men) (the mean age of both groups was 29 years). The SCID-5-PD semi-structured interview was used to determine personality disorder. Attitude to the body, on the other hand, was measured using the Body Attitude Test. The body schema was measured with the Body Representation task.
Attitude to body differed significantly in the direction of a more negative attitude in all three test factors compared to the control group (negative assessment of body size: t (54) = 4.343; p <0.01; 95% CI = [.752; 2.031], lack of knowledge of one's own body: t (54) = 2.709, p = 0.014, 95% CI = [.089; .677], satisfaction with general body: t (54) = 4.394, p = 0.002, 95% CI = [.756; 2.08]). Patient group members were more misled in both the open and closed eye task. We found a greater difference in favor of the borderline group in terms of open-eye body contour (t (54) = 2.765, p = 0.014; 95% CI = [.59; 3.609]) and closed-eye body contour (t (54) = 2.114, p = 0.044; 95% CI = [. 24; 3,472]) and in terms of the sum of points in case of closed eye condition (t (54) = 2.218, p = 0.030; 95% CI = [. 272; 3.88]) and opened-eyed condition (t (54) = 3.072). , p = 0.003; 95% CI = [1.062; 4.352]).
Based on the results, the body image of borderline patients appears to be significantly different from healthy ones at both the attitudinal and perceptual levels.

University and Doctoral School

Semmelweis University, Doctoral School of Mental Health Sciences

Supervisor

Prof. dr. Unoka Zsolt

Publication of my abstract

I give consent to the publication of my abstract on the website of the congress.

Kind

Szabad

Status

elfogadva

Accepted presentation method

poszter

Előadás fájl jóváhagyás

nem rendelkezett róla

Előadó

6902

Start

13:15

End

13:20

Authors (legacy)

Szily Dorottya, Semmelweis University Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Prof. Dr. Unoka Zsolt, Semmelweis University Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Dr. S. Nagy Zita Országos Orvosi Rehabilitációs Intézet
Kelemen Rebeka, Természettudományi Kutatóközpont