![]() ![]() Studies have estimated that 34 to 70% of adults suffering from ADHD have difficulties regulating their emotions. Several studies suggest that besides attentional and hyperactive-impulsive symptoms, emotional dysregulation (ED) is a core symptom of ADHD, both in childhood and adulthood. ![]() There is increasing evidence of a close link between emotional symptoms and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, ADHD patients showed a higher use of adaptive cognitive emotional strategies and a lower level of ED than BPD patients. Our results suggest that there may be similarly inefficient cognitive emotional regulation skills leading to ED in both disorders (ADHD and BPD). ADHD patients with comorbid BPD had the highest scores of ED. ED generated considerable distress in all groups and was also positively associated with ADHD symptomatology. However, ADHD subjects had similar scores as BPD subjects when looking at difficulties in perceiving self and others. ResultsĪDHD patients, although having higher ED than samples derived from the general population, had less ED, better control over their emotions with higher use of adaptive cognitive strategies and lesser use of non-adaptive strategies than BPD patients. ![]() ADHD, BPD and comorbid patients were compared with each other and with samples of controls extracted from already published data. Methodsįour hundred six French-speaking outpatients ( N = 279 ADHD, N = 70 BPD, N = 60 BPD + ADHD) were assessed with the Emotion Reactivity Scale (ERS), the Cognitive Emotional Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ), The Basic Empathy Scale (BES-A), the Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ARSV-v1.1) and the Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II). Our research aimed to evaluate and compare ED and cognitive emotional regulation strategies between ADHD and borderline personality disorder (BPD) patients. It is believed to have a considerable impact on the severity of the disorder, one’s global functioning, and the prognosis. Emotional dysregulation (ED) is now considered as an important symptom of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). ![]()
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