ISSN 1671-3710
CN 11-4766/R
主办:中国科学院心理研究所
出版:科学出版社

心理科学进展 ›› 2021, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (7): 1179-1194.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1042.2021.01179

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拒绝敏感性与边缘型人格特征的关联:一项元分析

张雯1, 胡娜2, 丁雪辰1,3(), 李俊一4()   

  1. 1 上海师范大学心理学系, 上海 200234
    2 华东师范大学心理与认知科学学院, 上海 200062
    3 上海市中小学在线教育研究基地, 上海 200234
    4 四川师范大学心理学院, 成都 610066
  • 收稿日期:2020-08-21 出版日期:2021-07-15 发布日期:2021-05-24
  • 通讯作者: 丁雪辰,李俊一 E-mail:dingxuechen_psy@163.com;junyili@sicnu.edu.cn
  • 基金资助:
    国家自然科学基金青年项目(32000756);上海市教育发展基金会和上海市教育委员会“晨光计划”(18CG49);四川省教师教育研究中心重点项目(TER2019-002);上海市教育委员会科研创新计划重大项目(2019-01-07-00-02-E00005)

The relationship between rejection sensitivity and borderline personality features: A meta-analysis

ZHANG Wen1, HU Na2, DING Xuechen1,3(), LI Junyi4()   

  1. 1 Department of Psychology, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China
    2 School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
    3 The Research Base of Online Education for Shanghai Middle and Primary Schools, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China
    4 School of Psychology, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu 610066, China
  • Received:2020-08-21 Online:2021-07-15 Published:2021-05-24
  • Contact: DING Xuechen,LI Junyi E-mail:dingxuechen_psy@163.com;junyili@sicnu.edu.cn

摘要:

运用元分析法整合探究拒绝敏感性与边缘型人格特征关联的已有实证研究, 旨在分析两者间的关联, 并同时考察可能影响该关联的其他变量。经过文献检索和筛选, 共纳入符合要求的原始文献50篇, 含84个效应量, 总样本量为7400人。同质性检验结果表明, 纳入研究的异质性较高, 故进一步对各影响因素变量进行了亚样本及元回归分析。结果发现, 在不同研究设计类型、被试所处地、样本类型、边缘型人格特征指标、拒绝敏感性测量类型的亚样本下, 二者之间的关联存在一定差异, 其中在横向设计、其他地区样本、混合被试、整体边缘型人格特征、量表法测量时所得的拒绝敏感性与边缘型人格特征间的关联最强; 年龄与女性被试比例对该关联不存在显著影响。未来研究可通过纵向研究进一步揭示二者间的预测方向, 考察拒绝敏感性不同成分与边缘型人格特征间的关联, 并在国内开展探索二者关联的研究。

关键词: 拒绝敏感性, 边缘型人格特征, 元分析, 亚样本分析, 元回归分析

Abstract:

Rejection sensitivity (RS) refers to the cognitive-affective processing disposition to anxiously expect, readily perceive, and intensely react to cues of interpersonal rejection (Downey et al., 2004). The developmental model of rejection sensitivity suggests that rejection experience is a disadvantaged environment during the growth process of individuals with borderline personality disorder. Also, forming and maintaining stable interpersonal relationships is human motivation and the basis of physical and mental health. Social rejection is considered as an important negative event in social situations and can be used to measure individual adaption (Baumeister & Leary, 1995). Compared with borderline personality disorder, individuals with higher borderline personality features are more universal in our daily life and inclined to perceive rejection and exclusion, which includes marked instability on emotion, interpersonal functioning, identity, and behavior impulsivity (APA, 2013).

Previous studies have shown that there is a positive correlation between rejection sensitivity and borderline personality disorder or borderline personality features, which is related to tense and negative interpersonal relationship patterns, negative emotional experience, and so on (Ayduk et al., 2008; Hidalgo et al., 2016; Masland, 2016; Staebler et al., 2011), but the results of those previous empirical studies regarding the relationship between rejection sensitivity and borderline personality features are quite different and relatively wide (de Panfilis et al., 2016; Dixon-Gordon et al., 2013; Lazarus et al., 2018). The wide range of correlation coefficients from previous studies may be caused by other potential influencing factors, which should be fully discussed at present (Cavicchioli & Maffei, 2019; Foxhall et al., 2019; Gao et al., 2017). For example, the correlation may be stronger in more immersive laboratory studies than in questionnaires based on imagined situations, when rejection sensitivity is measured (Berenson et al., 2009; Downey & Feldman, 1996; Williams et al., 2007; Wrege et al., 2019); individualism emphasizes that people make friends with more independent choices and pays more attention to personal interests, while collectivist cultures value interpersonal relationships, which may have a stronger correlation (Chen et al., 2018; Falk et al., 2009). Therefore, the present meta-analysis study aims to examine potential factors related to the association between rejection sensitivity and borderline personality features, which helps to avoid sample heterogeneity and get more precise and unique results.

As mentioned above, the current study aimed at integrating the results of existing research and examining the possible factors related to the relationship between rejection sensitivity and borderline personality features through the meta-analysis. Fifty original journal articles that met the inclusion/exclusion requirements were included, including 84 effect sizes, and 7, 400 participants. The homogeneity test indicated heterogeneity of effect sizes. Therefore, we used subgroup analysis and meta-regression to explore how different types of study design, source of the sample, sample type, indices of borderline personality features, and type of rejection sensitivity measurement affect this relationship. The results revealed that (1) the relationship between rejection sensitivity and borderline personality features was the strongest in the subgroup of the cross-sectional design, non-European and American samples, mixed subject samples, overall borderline personality feature, and rejection sensitivity measured by questionnaires; (2) participants’ age and the proportion of female participants did not have the significant effect to this relationship in the subgroup with large sample size, namely the cross-sectional design, European and American samples, overall borderline personality feature, and rejection sensitivity measured by questionnaires. This is the first meta-analysis to systematically explore how the underlying moderators have the effect of the relationship between rejection sensitivity and borderline personality features, which will advance research in this field. In the future, researchers should pay more attention to explore the predictive relationship between rejection sensitivity and borderline personality features through longitudinal studies, investigate the relationship between different components of rejection sensitivity and borderline personality features, and conduct experiments studies to explore this relationship in China.

Key words: rejection sensitivity, borderline personality features, meta-analysis, subgroup analysis, meta-regression analysis

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