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Aubrey, J., Rhea, D. M., Olson, L. N., & Fine, M. (2013). Conflict and Control: Examining the
Association Between Exposure to Television Portraying Interpersonal Conflict and the Use of
Controlling Behaviors in Romantic Relationships. Communication Studies, 64(1), 106-124. doi:
10.1080/10510974.2012.731465
deMontigny-Malenfant, B., Santerre, M., Bouchard, S., Sabourin, S., Lazarides, A., & Belanger,
C. (2013). Couples’ Negative Interaction Behaviors and Borderline Personality
Disorder.American Journal Of Family Therapy, 41(3), 259-271.
doi:10.1080/01926187.2012.688006
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I did my annotated bibliography with article, Couples' Negative Interaction Behaviors and
Borderline Persoanlity Disorder by de Montigny-Malenfant et al.
1. The authors felt it was important to conduct this study, and write this article, because
there are couples with one person having borderline personality disorder (BPD) and most
of couples have conflict. Because BPD is a serious mental disorder and associated with
negative problem-solving communication behaviors, it impacts interpersonal behaviors
and relationship so BPD has possibility to control the quality of couples’ life.
2. The main purpose of this article, or study, was to find out the quality of couples’ life with
one person diagnosed BPD.
3. The key questions the author is addressing are how the couples with one (all women in
this study) person diagnosed BPD will result (looking on negative behaviors) different
than community couples when they are scaled on coding system. Does BPD really matter
in interpersonal conflicts and negative behaviors.
4. The methods used to answer their key questions were direct observation. The sample
consisted of 28 couples with women were diagnosed with BPD and 82 community
couples. And they used three negative dimensions of coding system to measure the
quality during couples’ interactions.
5. The most important information in this article is that the authors find conducted result
that BPD has impact on interpersonal conflicts, and there are many couples with BPD.
They found negative behaviors as their outcomes.
6. The results can be put into context by comparing them to result in couples with women
has BPD has fewer years of education (background), which explains BPD effects
negatively in interpersonal relationship, and with three negative behaviors were
combined they (M=0.81, SD=0.08) had significantly higher global scores than
community couples (M=0.56, SD=0.04).
7. The main inferences/conclusions in this article are women with BPD showed that they
more like to control or dominate the interaction, and scored higher on the negative
behavior dimensions. Thus, persons with BPD’s misbehavior in communication skill will
lead relationship un-satisfaction and un-effective, and persons with BPD hardly recognize
themselves wrong and well criticize the other.
8. If we take this line of reasoning seriously, the implications are like: BPD people scares
about being alone but they also wants to criticize others and control (negative effect
communication behaviors) that makes people less tend to stay with them. What if this
world changes, so most of us become BPD, can BPD people interact each other as in
family, friends, society, co-workers, and romantic partners?