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The document summarizes 80 items from the Borderline Personality Questionnaire (BPQ) arranged into 9 subscales: Impulsivity, Affective Instability, Abandonment, Relationships, Self-Image, Suicide/Self-Mutilation, Emptiness, Intense Anger, and Quasi-Psychotic States. Each subscale includes a brief description and lists 8-10 questionnaire items that are designed to assess behaviors and feelings relevant to that aspect of borderline personality disorder.

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BPQ Correção

The document summarizes 80 items from the Borderline Personality Questionnaire (BPQ) arranged into 9 subscales: Impulsivity, Affective Instability, Abandonment, Relationships, Self-Image, Suicide/Self-Mutilation, Emptiness, Intense Anger, and Quasi-Psychotic States. Each subscale includes a brief description and lists 8-10 questionnaire items that are designed to assess behaviors and feelings relevant to that aspect of borderline personality disorder.

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APPENDIX 1

BPQ items arranged by subscales.


Note that items marked with an asterisk (*) are reverse scored.

Impulsivity
1. I often do things without thinking them through.
10. I will not have sex with someone unless I have known them for quite
some time.*
26. I have tried ‘hard’ street drugs (e.g., cocaine, heroine).
34. It is not unusual for me to have sex on the first date.
42. I get high on drugs whenever I feel like it.
57. When I drink, I drink too much.
64. I often receive speeding tickets.
68. I often do things impulsively.
71. At times I eat so much food that I am in pain or have to force myself to
throw up.

Affective Instability
2. I often become depressed or anxious ‘out of the blue.’
11. I sometimes feel anxious or irritable and become sad a few hours later.
19. My friends have told me that my mood changes very quickly.
27. My mood frequently alternates throughout the day between happiness,
anger, anxiety, and depression.
35. I sometimes feel very sad, but this feeling can change quickly.
43. I rarely feel sad or anxious.*
49. I sometimes feel very happy, but this feeling can change quickly.
58. I consider myself to be a moody person.
65. I often feel like I am on an emotional ‘roller-coaster.’
72. People tell me that I am a moody person.

Abandonment
3. People often leave me.
12. When people close to me die or leave me, I feel abandoned.
20. I am afraid to spend time alone.
28. When my friends leave, I am confident I will see them again.*
44. No one loves me.
50. I find it difficult to depend on others because they will not be there when
I need them.
59. I have difficulty developing close relationships because people often
abandon me.
66. I feel like my family has deserted me.
73. The people I love often leave me.
78. I often become frantic when I think that someone I care about will leave
me.

Relationships
2 rarely disappointed by my friends. *
4. I am
13. I often exaggerate the potential of friendships only to find out later that
they will not work out.
21. People who seem trustworthy often disappoint me.
29. My friends often disappoint me.
36. People often let me down.
45. When I trust people, they rarely disappoint me.*
51. The relationships with people I care about have lots of ups and downs.
60. My friends are always there when I need them.*

Self-Image
5. I feel inferior to other people.
14. If I were more like other people I would feel better about myself.
37. I wish I could be more like some of my friends.
46. I feel that people would not like me if they really knew me well.
52. I feel comfortable acting like myself.*
61. I wish I were someone else.
67. I am very comfortable with who I am.*
70. I am not sure what I want to do in the future.
74. In social situations, I often feel that others will see through me and
realize that I don’t have much to offer

Suicide/Self-Mutilation
6. I have threatened to hurt myself in the past.
15. I have deliberately tried to hurt myself without trying to kill myself.
22. I have made a suicide attempt in the past.
30. I have cut myself on purpose.
38. I used to try to hurt myself to get attention.
53. I have never made an attempt to hurt myself.*
75. I have been in the hospital for trying to harm myself.

Emptiness
7. I do not believe that I have the skills to do anything with my life.
16. In general, my life is pretty boring.
23. I often feel like I have nothing to offer others.
31. I often feel lonely and deserted.
39. I am often different with different people in different situations so that
sometimes I am not sure who I am.
54. I rarely feel lonely.*
62. I feel like my life is not interesting.
69. My life is without purpose.
76. I often feel empty inside.
79. I am often confused about my long-term goals.

Intense Anger
8. I rarely get angry at other people.*
17. I frequently get into physical fights.
24. I have trouble controlling my temper.
32. I have no difficulty controlling my temper.*
40. I easily become irritated by others.
47. I get angry easily.
55. I often find that the littlest things make me angry.
63. When I am angry, I often hit objects and break things.
77. Others often make me angry.
80. Others say I’m quick tempered.

Quasi-Psychotic States
9. Sometimes I feel like I am not real.
18. People are sometimes out to get me.
25. I can read other people’s minds.
33. I sometimes see or hear things that other people cannot see or hear.
41. Sometimes I can actually hear what other people are thinking.
48. It is impossible to read others’ minds.*
56. Sometimes I can’t tell between what is real and what I have imagined.

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