The role of experiential avoidance, psychopathology, and borderline personality features in experiencing positive emotions: a path analysis.

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Abstract

Experiential avoidance (EA) is an important factor in maintaining different forms of psychopathology including borderline personality pathology (BPD). So far little is known about the functions of EA, BPD features and general psychopathology for positive emotions. In this study we investigated three different anticipated pathways of their influence on positive emotions.

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Original languageEnglish
Article number1
ISSN0005-7916
Publication statusPublished - 2013
pubmed 22922078