World assumptions and the role of trauma in borderline personality disorder

BPD patients appear to view the world as malevolent and perceive less luck independent of trauma but dependent of BPD psychopathology. Furthermore, BPD patients have low self-worth and persist in specific beliefs independent of trauma or severity of BPD psychopathology. Pretzer's theory of BPD can be largely supported through Janoff-Bulman's world assumptive model. World assumptions of BPD patients can better be explained by the severity of BPD psychopathology than by the presence of trauma.