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Table 1 Sample characteristics

From: Emotion recognition in borderline personality disorder: effects of emotional information on negative bias

 

BPD N = 32

HC N = 31

p

Mean age in years

30.35 (8.22)

29.84 (7.70)

0.838

Mean years of education

11.03 (1.64)

11.52 (1.57)

0.235

DERS sum score

128.10 (24.38)

59.77 (11.86)

<0.001

BSL-23 sum score

2.24 (0.79)

0.15 (0.19)

<0.001

PANAS_positive_pre

2.43 (0.64)

2.95 (0.60)

0.002

PANAS_positive_post

2.07 (0.62)

2.51 (0.71)

0.012

PANAS_negative_pre

1.97 (0.73)

1.07 (0.08)

< .001

PANAS_negative_post

2.06 (0.79)

1.10 (0.19)

<0.001

  1. Note: Means and standard deviations (in parentheses) of DERS = Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, BSL-23 = Borderline Symptom List-23, PANAS = Positive and Negative Affect Schedule, positive_pre = positive affect before the experiment, positive_post = positive affect after the experiment, negative_pre = negative affect before the experiment, negative_post = negative affect after the experiment