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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调查主观空虚的跨诊断价值。

有心理健康问题的人报告空虚感是很常见的。然而，主观空虚与特定疾病的关联及其在人格病理学维度分类中的独特作用尚不清楚。本研究使用最近开发的自我报告措施在 157 名参与者的混合样本中评估主观空虚的跨诊断价值。作者调查了空虚与临床相关变量的关联，包括边缘型人格障碍症状、抑郁、焦虑、自杀意念和自杀企图。主观空虚与所有标准都显示出很强的正相关关系。控制人格功能障碍、适应不良人格特征的回归模型，和当前的症状困扰支持空虚对特定障碍结构和自杀的增量有效性。这些发现表明，空虚代表了精神病理学的一个方面，对精神障碍的分类特别有用，尤其是涉及自我功能障碍和超脱的内化障碍。