Borderline Personality Disorder and Disordered Eating Behaviour: The Mediating Role of Rejection Sensitivity.

OBJECTIVE: To examine the relationship between disordered eating behaviour and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) in a clinical population of adolescent girls. We hypothesized that BPD and disordered eating would be strongly associated and that this association would be partially mediated by rejection sensitivity. METHOD: Participants were 73 female patients aged 11-18 presenting for mental health treatment at an outpatient psychiatry clinic …