Table 3 Mental pain subscales and other clinical variables of BPD, DD, and HC
Rating scales scores | BPD | DD | HC | Analysis | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | p a | Contrastb | |
GAF score | 58.59 | 9.15 | 62.25 | 6.91 | 84.11 | 4.68 | .00 | BPD, DD > HC |
Mental pain total score | 121.8 | 31.1 | 105.9 | 37.2 | 67.5 | 16.0 | .00 | BPD, DD > HC |
Mental pain subtypes: | ||||||||
Irreversibility | 23.56 | 8.26 | 23.14 | 8.81 | 12.77 | 4.50 | .00 | BPD, DD > HC |
Loss of control | 27.95 | 9.40 | 22.14 | 9.54 | 13.52 | 3.92 | .00 | BPD, DD > HC |
Narcissist wounds | 13.26 | 4.35 | 9.50 | 5.09 | 6.61 | 2.00 | .00 | BPD > DD > HC |
Emotional flooding | 15.23 | 3.62 | 13.36 | 4.98 | 7.03 | 3.01 | .00 | BPD, DD > HC |
Freezing | 6.96 | 3.12 | 5.59 | 3.17 | 3.55 | 1.00 | .00 | BPD, DD > HC |
Self-estrangement | 7.77 | 2.88 | 6.68 | 3.37 | 4.23 | 1.63 | .00 | BPD, DD > HC |
Confusion | 9.21 | 3.39 | 8.55 | 3.71 | 4.87 | 1.88 | .00 | BPD, DD > HC |
Social distancing | 10.89 | 2.85 | 11.05 | 2.75 | 11.35 | 1.40 | .71 | |
Emptiness | 6.91 | 3.09 | 5.91 | 3.18 | 3.55 | 1.18 | .00 | BPD, MDD > HC |
Beck depression inventory | 18.9 | 9.7 | 13.9 | 10.8 | 2.7 | 3.0 | .00 | BPD, MDD > HC |
Hamilton depression scale | 14.1 | 8.3 | 10.2 | 7.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | .00 | BPD, MDD > HC |
Scale of suicidal ideation (current = past week) | 3.8 | 6.0 | 1.0 | 2.4 | .09 | |||
N | % | N | % | |||||
Physical or sexual abuse before age 18 | 28 | 50.9 | 10 | 49.1 | .58 | |||
Suicide attempter | 31 | 53.39 | 17 | 77.27 | .08 | |||