It is common for people with mental health problems to report feelings of emptiness. However, the association of subjective emptiness with specific disorders and its unique role within dimensional taxonomies of personality pathology is not well understood. The present study assesses the transdiagnostic value of subjective emptiness using a recently developed self-report measure in a mixed sample of 157 participants. The authors investigated the associations of emptiness with clinically relevant variables, including borderline personality disorder symptoms, depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and suicide attempts. Subjective emptiness showed strong positive relationships with all criteria. Regression models controlling for impairments of personality functioning, maladaptive personality traits, and current symptom distress supported the incremental validity of emptiness for specific disorder constructs and suicidality. These findings indicate that emptiness represents a facet of psychopathology that can be particularly useful for the classification of mental disorders, and in particular internalizing disorders involving self-dysfunction and detachment.

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调查主观空虚的转诊价值。

有精神健康问题的人通常会感到空虚。然而，主观空虚与特定疾病的关联及其在人格病理的维度分类法中的独特作用尚未得到很好的理解。本研究在157名参与者的混合样本中使用最近开发的自我报告方法评估了主观空虚的转诊价值。作者研究了空虚与临床相关变量的关联，这些变量包括边缘性人格障碍症状，抑郁，焦虑，自杀意念和自杀未遂。主观空虚与所有标准都显示出强烈的正相关关系。控制人格功能障碍，适应不良的人格特质的回归模型，当前的症状困扰支持空虚对于特定障碍构造和自杀倾向的递增有效性。这些发现表明，空虚代表着精神病理学的一个方面，对于精神障碍的分类特别是有用，特别是涉及自我功能障碍和超脱的内在性障碍。