Process / pipelineBorderline personality disorder symptom severity
Borderline Symptom List (BSL-95)
The BSL-95 is a 95-item self-report questionnaire designed to measure the severity of borderline personality disorder (BPD) symptoms across nine subscales: affect dysregulation, distrust, self-harming behaviors, suicide risk, identity disturbance, negative relationships, and dissociation. Developed by Bohus and colleagues in 2007, it provides comprehensive assessment of the multifaceted psychopathology of BPD. A brief 23-item version (BSL-23) has also been validated for rapid assessment. The BSL is sensitive to treatment effects and widely used in BPD research and clinical monitoring.
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- Bohus, M., Kleindienst, N., Limberger, M. F., Stieglitz, R. D., Domsalla, M. E., Chapman, A. L., ... & Wolf, M. (2009). The short version of the Borderline Symptom List (BSL-23): Development and initial data on psychometric properties. Psychopathology, 42(1), 32–39. DOI: 10.1159/000173701 ↗
- Stiglmayr, C. E., Ebner-Priemer, U. W., Bretz, J., Behm, R., Mohammadi, B., Schlottke, P. F., & Bohus, M. (2008). Dissociative symptoms are positively related to stress in borderline personality disorder. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 117(4), 278–288. DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.2007.01152.x ↗
- Kleindienst, N., Limberger, M. F., Ebner-Priemer, U. W., Keibel, A., & Bohus, M. (2011). Prospective prediction of suicide attempts within a 6-month follow-up period in female patients with borderline personality disorder: Findings from the Berlin Affective Psychosis Study. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 123(1), 61–70. DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.2010.01600.x ↗