Comparison of Cognitive flexibility, Impulsivity and Qualitative educational performance in College students with Borderline personality Disorder traits and normal college students.

Borderline personality disorder is one of the most common psychiatric disorders. The essential feature of borderline personality disorder is a pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity that begins by early adulthood and is present in a variety of contexts. This study aimed to compare cognitive flexibility, impulsivity and quantitative educational performance in college students with borderline personality traits and normal college students. In this regard, 20 college student with Borderline personality traits and 20 normal college students were chosen by borderline personality inventory (BPI), ), and then participants were evaluated with Wisconsin Card Sorting Test, Barratt Impulsiveness Scale-11, and Educational Performance Test. Data were analyzed using Multivariate analysis of variance(MANOVA). The results showed that there are significant difference between college students with borderline personality traits and normal college students in cognitive flexibility, impulsivity and quantitative educational performance. Therefore, the results of this study indicated that college students with borderline personality traits exhibited deficits in cognitive flexibility, impulsivity and quantitative educational performance.