Personality Test Borderline Personality 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: 'Splitting' in BPD refers to:
- Dissociation during trauma
- Seeing people as entirely good or entirely bad with no middle ground (Correct answer)
- A therapeutic technique for treating BPD
- Dividing therapy sessions into skill and process segments
Correct answer: Seeing people as entirely good or entirely bad with no middle ground
Splitting is a defense mechanism where the person cannot integrate positive and negative qualities, seeing things as black or white.
Question 2: Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) was developed by:
- Aaron Beck
- Albert Ellis
- Marsha Linehan (Correct answer)
- Carl Rogers
Correct answer: Marsha Linehan
Marsha Linehan, who later disclosed her own BPD diagnosis, developed DBT in the late 1980s specifically for chronically suicidal patients.
Question 3: The biosocial theory of BPD, proposed by Linehan, suggests the disorder results from:
- Purely genetic factors with no environmental contribution
- Biological emotional sensitivity interacting with an invalidating environment (Correct answer)
- Head trauma in early childhood
- Attachment disorders caused by parental absence alone
Correct answer: Biological emotional sensitivity interacting with an invalidating environment
Linehan's biosocial model posits that BPD arises when biologically sensitive individuals grow up in environments that invalidate their emotions.
Question 4: Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociation is listed in DSM-5 as a criterion for which personality disorder?
- Schizotypal Personality Disorder
- Paranoid Personality Disorder
- Borderline Personality Disorder (Correct answer)
- Avoidant Personality Disorder
Correct answer: Borderline Personality Disorder
BPD criterion 9 includes stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms that are transient.
Question 5: How does BPD prevalence compare between clinical and general populations?
- BPD affects roughly the same percentage in both
- BPD is rare in both settings
- BPD affects approximately 1–2% of the general population but 10–20% of psychiatric patients (Correct answer)
- BPD is more common in the general population than in clinical settings
Correct answer: BPD affects approximately 1–2% of the general population but 10–20% of psychiatric patients
BPD prevalence is approximately 1–2% in the general US population but rises to 10–20% in inpatient psychiatric settings.
Question 6: Which skill module is NOT part of standard DBT skills training?
- Mindfulness
- Distress Tolerance
- Interpersonal Effectiveness
- Cognitive Restructuring (Correct answer)
Correct answer: Cognitive Restructuring
Standard DBT includes four modules: Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness — not Cognitive Restructuring.
Personality Test Borderline Personality 2
'Splitting' in BPD refers to: