The relationship between borderline symptoms and vantage perspective during autobiographical memory retrieval in a community sample

Table 1 Descriptive statistics of the measures used

	M	SD	Range
Autobiographical Memory Test (AMT)
% O	27.77	.21	0.00 – 75.00
% O-HD	27.54	.23	0.00 – 80.00
% O-LD	27.78	.22	0.00 – 80.00
Total	4.11	.74	1.74 – 6.00
Borderline Syndrome Index (BSI)
Negative Self-Definition (NSD)	1.59	2.47	.00 – 13.00
Difficult Interpersonal Relationships (DIR)	1.44	1.73	.00 – 10.00
Failing Social Skills (FSS)	2.31	1.97	.00 – 9.00
Anxiety (ANX)	2.77	2.42	.00 – 11.00
Total	8.40	7.42	.00 – 40.00
Depression scale of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS21-D), total	3.32	3.56	0 – 17

%O = proportion memories retrieved during full AMT administration using an observer perspective; %O-HD = proportion memories retrieved using an observer perspective following high discrepant AMT cues; %O-LD = proportion memories retrieved using an observer perspective following low discrepant AMT cues.

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