Remeeus, Melissa GA;
Silvius, Jordy AW;
Feenstra, Dine J;
Luyten, Patrick;
Hutsebaut, Joost;
Scholte, Ron HJ;
(2025)
Physical activity, sleep, and eating in young people with borderline personality disorder.
Personality and Mental Health
(In press).
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Abstract
Previous research suggests a connection between borderline personality disorder (BPD) and somatic comorbidities, underscoring the importance of lifestyle and health-related behaviour (LHRB) in the emergence of BPD. We investigated LHRBs - physical activity, sleeping, and overeating - among young people at different BPD stages compared to a matched community sample. Furthermore, we explored whether problematic LHRBs intensify in later BPD stages. Participants included 55 young people exhibiting BPD features from a specialized mental health care institution, matched with a community control group based on age, self-reported, and education. A MANOVA assessed differences in physical activity, sleep disturbance, sleep-related impairment, and emotional overeating between the BPD and control group. A second MANOVA explored these behaviours across BPD stages within the clinical group. Results revealed significantly higher levels of sleep-related problems among young people with BPD features compared to controls. However, no significant differences were found in physical activity or emotional overeating. Furthermore, problematic LHRBs did not show a significant association with BPD stage. These findings contribute to a better understanding of the relationship between BPD and problematic LHRBs, emphasizing the importance of early intervention targeting sleep-related problems in young people with BPD, alongside addressing other aspects of BPD and associated LHRBs.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Physical activity, sleep, and eating in young people with borderline personality disorder |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1932863x |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | lifestyle, health-related behaviour, adolescents, young adults, young people, borderline personality disorder, clinical staging, one-to-one matching |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10203028 |
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