Date of Award
Spring 2021
Document Type
Honors Thesis
Department/Major
Psychology
First Advisor
Sara Lowmaster
Second Advisor
Holly Straub
Third Advisor
Michael Granaas
Keywords
Borderline Personality Features, Borderline Personality Disorder, Rejection, Emotion Perception, Cyberball
Subject Categories
Psychology
Abstract
Deficits in interpersonal functioning are a core component of borderline personality disorder. Borderline personality disorder is generally associated with misperceptions of social cues including a tendency to perceive others as unfair and rejecting. There is evidence that individuals with subsyndromal borderline personality features also experience these negative outcomes. Furthermore, there is mixed evidence regarding whether individuals with borderline personality disorder have enhanced abilities or deficits in accurately identifying emotions. Therefore, this project examines how social context and borderline personality features affects an individual’s ability to accurately perceive emotions. Participants were randomly assigned to a Cyberball group (inclusion, rejection, overinclusion) and completed a series of self-report measures and an emotion perception task as well as played the Cyberball game. There was no significant main effect of Cyberball condition or borderline status on emotion perception and borderline personality features did not moderate the relationship. Although the findings of this study were not significant, looking at this model in a clinical sample might be beneficial.
Recommended Citation
Ghosh, Ashmita, "Influence of Social Rejection and Borderline Personality Features on Emotion Perception" (2021). Honors Thesis. 159.
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis/159