Given the relevance of child maltreatment for the development and treatment of many
mental disorders, the objective of our study was the psychometric evaluation of the German …

Early life stress is said to play a critical role in the development of borderline personality
disorder (BPD) and major depressive disorder (MDD), but the underlying mediating factors …

Childhood maltreatment has diverse, lifelong impact on morbidity and mortality. The Childhood
Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) is one of the most commonly used scales to assess and …

BACKGROUND: Alterations of the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis are hallmarks
in major depressive disorder (MDD) and there is some evidence about similar patterns in …

Results Both patient groups achieved higher scores on all clinical questionnaires and
interviews, compared to the control group (see Table 1). Bonferroni post-hoc tests revealed that …

Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) show evidence of disturbed emotion
regulation. In particular, patients may try to suppress their emotions with possibly negative …

Emotional dysfunction is a key feature of patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD)
but emotional intelligence (EI) has rarely been investigated in this sample. This study aimed …

OBJECTIVE: Overgeneral autobiographical memory has become a well established
phenomenon within major depressive disorder (MDD). Neuroendocrinologically, MDD is often …

Current research indicates altered inhibitory functioning in borderline personality disorder (BPD).
The emotional stroop task is a widely used method for investigating inhibition of …

Ninety psychiatric in‐patients and 73 controls have been asked about their coping styles to
negative life‐events. Patients reported more emotion‐oriented coping than controls. Emotion‐…