Table 1.

Diagnostic criteria for borderline personality disorder and corresponding items on Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis II Disorders

Diagnostic criteria of BPD	SCID-II items
1 -Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment	1
2 -A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation	2
3 -Identity disturbance: notably and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self	3, 4, 5, 6
4 -Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance misuse, reckless driving, binge eating)	7
5 -Recurrent suicidal gestures, or threats or self-mutilating behavior	8, 9
6 -Affective instability caused by a distinct reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days)	10
7 -Chronic feelings of emptiness	11
8 -Inappropriate intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights)	12, 13, 14
9 -Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms	15