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Table 2 DERS and YSR scores across inpatients adolescents with BPD, non-BPD psychiatric controls, and healthy controls

From: The specificity of emotion dysregulation in adolescents with borderline personality disorder: comparison with psychiatric and healthy controls

 

BPD

(n =187, 26.5%)

Non-BPD psychiatric

(n = 365, 52.6%)

Healthy

(n = 146, 20.9%)

M

(SD)

M

(SD)

M

(SD)

DERS Total score

121.69

(23.43)

99.20

(28.65)

72.66

(21.81)

Nonacceptance of emotional responses

18.06

(6.71)

14.08

(6.88)

10.79

(4.80)

Difficulty engaging in goal directed

20.20

(4.51)

17.38

(5.28)

13.23

(5.20)

Impulse control

19.35

(6.25)

14.30

(6.57)

9.63

(4.68)

Lack of emotional awareness

18.94

(5.93)

17.73

(5.92)

14.56

(5.16)

Limited access to emotion regulation strategies

29.08

(7.07)

22.07

(8.84)

14.65

(6.73)

Lack of emotional clarity

16.05

(4.98)

13.64

(5.17)

9.80

(4.02)

YSR total score

71.03

(8.45)

62.24

(9.74)

49.22

(11.00)

  1. Note. DERS difficulty in emotion regulation scale, YSR youth self-report. Values are means that have not been adjusted to control for the potentially confounding effects of gender, age, and psychiatric severity