MESQUITA, Jacqueline La Rosa de    ARTECHE, Adriane Xavier. Emotional processing in individuals with borderline personality disorder and with major depressive disorder. []. , 13, 3, pp.740-761. ISSN 1983-3482.

In the field of mental health, deficiencies in emotional processing have been evidenced in several psychopathologies. This quantitative study with a quasi-experimental design, aimed to investigate the Emotional Processing (Recognition of emotional facial expressions and Emotional Deregulation) in a sample of individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD, n = 13) and with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD, n = 20). A Face Recognition Task was developed specifically for this investigation. The task consisted of the presentation of 20 videos, of 5 seconds, with dynamic faces of the emotions Joy, Anger, Fear, Sadness and Neutral Faces. The hypotheses were partially confirmed. Regarding face recognition, in the reaction time, the TPB group showed a longer reaction time for neutral faces with (p=0,014). No statistically significant differences were found regarding accuracy. The results also point out that individuals with BPD have greater Emotional Deregulation, measured by self-report using the Emotional Regulation Difficulty Scale (DERS), than the MDD group. Emotional deregulation in the DERS subscales showed a significant difference between groups pointing to greater Emotional Deregulation of the BPD, in the subscales: Impulses (p = 0.001), Strategies (p = 0.0009) and Clarity (p =0.0005).

: borderline personality disorder; major depressive disorder; emotional processing.

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