Mindfulness skills in individuals with borderline personality features: Roles of impulsivity and rejection sensitivity

Abstract

The current study explores whether mindfulness mediates the relationships between borderline personality features and thefacets of impulsivity and borderline personality features and rejection sensitivity. The sample consisted of 419 individualsaged between 20 and 39 (M = 26.24, SD = 4.67). Data were colle cted using the Borderline Personality Inventory, MindfulAttention Awareness Scale, Urgency, Premeditation, Perseverance, and Sensation-Seeking Impulsivity Scale, and rejectionsensitivity questionnaire. Mediation analysis of the data was conducted using the PROCESS macro of Hayes. It was found thatmindfulness partially mediates the relationship between borderline personality features and urgency (N = (419) R2 = (0.22),F = (120.67), p < 0.001), and borderline personality features and sensation-seeking facets of impulsive behaviours (N = (419)R2 = (0.08), F = (36.62), p < 0.001). The study’s findings are discussed in relation to the existing literature.Keywords: Borderline personality features, mindfulness, impulsivity, rejection sensitivity.