The Associations of Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms, Five-Factor Model Personality Dimensions, and Personality Fragmentation among Depressed Inpatients

Timo Säämänen^1,2, Juha Voutilainen³, Jari Lahti^1,4,5, Erkki Isometsä^6,7, Martti Heikkinen⁷ and Marius Lahti^1,8*

¹Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

²Department of Psychiatry, Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa, Järvenpää, Finland

³Helsinki Department of Social Services and Health Care, Aurora Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

⁴Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Finland, Topeliusgatan 20, 00250 Helsingfors, Finland

⁵Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

⁶Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

⁷Department of Psychiatry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

⁸Endocrinology Unit, University/BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Science, Queen's Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK