拒绝敏感性与边缘型人格特征的关联:一项元分析

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

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。

Rejection sensitivity(RS)refers to the cognitive-affective processing disposition to anxiously expect,readily perceive,and intensely react to cues of interpersonal rejection.The developmental model of rejection sensitivity suggests that rejection experience is a disadvantaged environment during the growth process of individuals with borderline personality disorder.Therefore,individuals with higher borderline personality features are more inclined to perceive rejection and exclusion.However,findings of previous empirical studies regarding the relationship between borderline personality features and rejection sensitivity are mixed.The current meta-analysis aimed at integrating the results of existing research and examine possible moderators.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 feature,and type of rejection sensitivity measurement affect this relationship.The results revealed that(1)the relationship between RS 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 moderate this relationship.This is the first meta-analysis to systematically explore the relationship between rejection sensitivity and borderline personality features,and the underlying moderators,which will advance research in this field.