Description: In
collaboration with Nicole M. Cain (Rutgers), Chiara De Panfilis (Univ. of
Parma), Mike Roche (Penn State) and John F. Clarkin (Weill Cornell Medical
College), we are evaluating the implications of social cognitive
vulnerabilities (i.e., rejection sensitivity) and self-regulatory capacities
(i.e., effortful control) for personality and interpersonal functioning. Our
recent work has focused the impact of rejection sensitivity on relational
functioning, including instability in object representations and fluctuations
in interpersonal perceptions over time, as assessed by ecological momentary
assessment (EMA) of relational events across diverse samples. We are
collaborating with colleagues at WCMC to extend these findings to rejection
sensitive and suicidal patients being treated for borderline personality disorder
(BPD) by gathering EMA ratings of interpersonal events at three intervals of 2
weeks over an 18-month psychotherapy trial.
1.
Meehan, K. B., Cain, N. M., Roche, M. J., Clarkin, J. F.,
& De Panfilis, C. (2019). Rejection
sensitivity and self-regulation of daily interpersonal events. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy. DOI:
10.1007/s10879-019-09424-9
2.
Meehan, K. B., Cain, N. M., Roche, M. J., Clarkin, J. F.,
& De Panfilis, C. (2018). Rejection
sensitivity and interpersonal behavior in daily life. Personality and Individual Differences, 126, 109-115.
3. Meehan,
K. B., Cain, N. M., Clarkin,
J. F., & De Panfilis, C. (2017). The
impact of integrated object representations on rejection sensitivity. Psychoanalytic Psychology. DOI:
10.1037/pap0000162
4. Cain,
N. M., De Panfilis, C., Meehan, K. B.,
& Clarkin, J. F. (2017). A multi-surface interpersonal circumplex
assessment of rejection sensitivity. Journal
of Personality Assessment, 99(1), 35-45.
