Emotional intelligence in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder, borderline personality disorder and healthy controls

• Emotional intelligence is investigated in PTSD, BPD and PTSD with comorbid BPD• Emotional intelligence is impaired in PTSD without comorbid BPD• Impairment in PTSD without comorbid BPD is not restricted to specific emotions• No significant impairment in emotional intelligence in BPD was found. Emo...

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Published in:Psychiatry research 2018-06, Vol.264, p.290-296
Main Authors: Janke, Katrin, Driessen, Martin, Behnia, Behnoush, Wingenfeld, Katja, Roepke, Stefan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Borderline Personality Disorder - psychology
BPD
Case-Control Studies
Comorbidity
Emotional Intelligence
Emotions
Female
Humans
Intelligence Tests
Male
Middle Aged
PTSD
Social Behavior
Social cognition
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - psychology
TEMINT
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Summary:• Emotional intelligence is investigated in PTSD, BPD and PTSD with comorbid BPD• Emotional intelligence is impaired in PTSD without comorbid BPD• Impairment in PTSD without comorbid BPD is not restricted to specific emotions• No significant impairment in emotional intelligence in BPD was found. Emotional intelligence as a part of social cognition has, to our knowledge, never been investigated in patients with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), though the disorder is characterized by aspects of emotional dysfunctioning. PTSD often occurs with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) as a common comorbidity. Studies about social cognition and emotional intelligence in patients with BPD propose aberrant social cognition, but produced inconsistent results regarding emotional intelligence. The present study aims to assess emotional intelligence in patients with PTSD without comorbid BPD, PTSD with comorbid BPD, and BPD patients without comorbid PTSD, as well as in healthy controls. 71 patients with PTSD (41 patients with PTSD without comorbid BPD, 30 patients with PTSD with comorbid BPD), 56 patients with BPD without PTSD, and 63 healthy controls filled in the Test of Emotional Intelligence (TEMINT). Patients with PTSD without comorbid BPD showed impairments in emotional intelligence compared to patients with BPD without PTSD, and compared to healthy controls. These impairments were not restricted to specific emotions. Patients with BPD did not differ significantly from healthy controls. This study provides evidence for an impaired emotional intelligence in PTSD without comorbid BPD compared to BPD and healthy controls, affecting a wide range of emotions.
ISSN:0165-1781
1872-7123
DOI:10.1016/j.psychres.2018.03.078