Psychopathological Determinants of Quality of Life in People with Borderline Personality Disorder.

Comprehensive assessment of depressive symptoms should be regularly implemented in BPD services to facilitate early detection and treatment, thereby ensuring patients' SQOL. Accordingly, tackling anxiety and other PDs co-occurrence through appropriate interventions can facilitate more effectively SQOL improvement. Our findings can be explained by the hypothesis that co-existing psychopathology such as depression, anxiety and co-occurrence of other PDs in BPD patients represent illness severity indices rather than comorbid disorders, and might fully mediate the effect of BPD traits on SQOL. Future mediation analysis is required to elucidate this hypothesis.