Study of Dark Triad Personality and its relationship with Warm Empathy through Mediating Role of Affective-Cognitive Theory of Mind in Individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms

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Mina Zaferanchizadeh Moghaddam , Mina Mojtabaie , Simin Bashardoust

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Borderline personality disorder is a severe mental disorder. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between dark personality traits and warm empathy mediated by affective-cognitive theory of mind in people with symptoms of borderline personality disorder. The present study is an applied study with a descriptive-survey nature. The statistical population of the present study included all students with symptoms of borderline personality disorder in the Islamic Azad University of Tabriz in the year 1998-99. Were. In order to collect data, Borderline Personality Questionnaire (BPI), Dark Personality Quadruple Questionnaire (SD4), Baron-cohen Empathy Scale (EQ), Faux Pass Test (FPT) and Adult Form of Revised Eye Test (ET-R) were used. The results showed that there is a significant relationship between dark personality traits and warm empathy (p<0.01); there is a significant relationship between dark personality traits and the theory of affective and cognitive mind (p<0.01) and dark personality traits have an indirect effect on warm empathy through the mediation of affective and cognitive theory of mind (p<0.01). Based on the findings, it is inferred that the ability of mind theory can be used to influence the warm empathy of people with dark personality traits.

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