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Mad Men Or Bad Men? How Gender Stereotypes, Individual Symptoms, And Participant Gender Affect Non-Expert's Evaluations Of People With Borderline Personality Disorder, Quinnehtukqut James Mclamore

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Gender-role stereotypes affect how people with mental disorders are perceived and judged. People with a gender-stereotype congruent mental disorder (i.e., men with alcohol use disorder) are viewed as less mentally ill and more to blame for their disorder than people with a gender stereotype-incongruent disorder (i.e., women with alcohol use disorder, Wirth & Bodenhausen, 2009). Borderline personality disorder (BPD) symptoms and comorbidities often vary between men and women along gendered lines (i.e., explosive anger is more common in men with BPD and compulsive buying is more common in women). These different presentations may cause men and women with BPD to …