https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.463

Reflective functioning and personal recovery process of users with borderline personality disorder on Instagram: an explorative study using computerized and thematic analysis

Vol. 23 No. 3 (2020)
Submitted: May 3, 2020
Accepted: September 12, 2020
Published: January 18, 2021
Reflective functioning, personal recovery, borderline, thematic and stylistic analysis, social media.
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Giovanna Esposito
giovan.esposito@unina.it
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4926-108X
Department of Humanities, University of Naples Federico II, Italy.
Viviana Perla
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7646-7772
Department of Humanities, University of Naples Federico II, Italy.
Raffaella Passeggia
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2006-0644
Department of Humanities, University of Naples Federico II, Italy.
Erik Fertuck
City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, NY, United States.
Erhard Mergenthaler
Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Ulm University, Germany.

Although recent literature has stated that mentalizing (or reflective functioning; RF) promoted the clinical recovery (symptomatic remission; CR) of individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD), to our knowledge, there have been no studies that analyzed the relationship between RF and a process more complex than CR, namely personal recovery (PR) - a deep and unique process of change in one’s attitudes, values, feelings, goals and/or roles. Furthermore, while there have been a few studies concerning PR of BPD individuals, but to date none analyzed PR of BPD individuals through online narratives shared on social media platforms. This study investigates the relationship between RF and PR of 14 Instagram users with a selfreported diagnosis of BPD. Two groups of users were distinguished on the basis of hashtags, #bpd and #bpdrecovery. Seventy randomized text posts (5 from each user) were extracted from users’ profiles: 35 from the #bpd group and 35 from #bpdrecovery. Two methods of analysis were applied: i) a thematic analysis, by using the theoretical framework CHIME, which identifies five dimensions of PR; and ii) a stylistic analysis of RF utilizing computerized reflective functioning (CRF), which identifies RF lexical markers. Results indicate that the #bpdrecovery group presented more dimensions of PR, and that its posts showed a significantly higher RF than the #bpd group. These findings suggest that RF could be involved in the PR of BPD individuals, thus mentalization-based treatment could be effective in supporting PR processes and enhancing the impaired RF in BPD users even in the online context.

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Esposito, G., Perla, V., Passeggia, R., Fertuck, E., & Mergenthaler, E. (2021). Reflective functioning and personal recovery process of users with borderline personality disorder on Instagram: an explorative study using computerized and thematic analysis. Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome, 23(3). https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.463
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