Background: Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a serious and complex mental disorder that begins in early adulthood and is characterized by a pervasive pattern of difficulties in emotion regulation and impulse control, instability in interpersonal relationships, and a fragile self-image. This leads to impulsive self-destructive behavior, a high level of suicidality, and severe functional impairment. It is the most common personality disorder seen in psychiatric settings. From a cognitive perspective, dysfunctional beliefs play a central role in the phenomenology of Borderline Personality Disorder. Emotional processing, alexithymia, and distress tolerance are important features of this disorder.
Aim: This research aims to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive biases modification on emotional processing, alexithymia, and distress tolerance of students with symptoms of borderline personality disorder
Methodology: The study population consisted of all students at the Persian Gulf University of Bushehr during the academic year 1401-1402 who exhibited symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder. From this population, 478 students (both male and female) were selected through cluster sampling based on the Borderline Personality Disorder scale to participate in the study. 92 participants with scores equal to or greater than the cutoff point 1.5 were purposefully selected. Finally, 40 individuals were chosen based on entry criteria. The instruments used in this study included questionnaires for emotional processing, alexithymia, and distress tolerance, as well as a cognitive bias assessment test. Data analysis was conducted using SPSS software.
Conclusions: The results of the statistical analyses showed that cognitive biases modification in college students with symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder had a significant and effective impact on emotional processing and its subscales, including unpleasant emotional experiences, unprocessed emotions, emotional avoi