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Table 2 Risk-Taking Behavior by Group

From: Health related quality of life and psychopathological distress in risk taking and self-harming adolescents with full-syndrome, subthreshold and without borderline personality disorder: rethinking the clinical cut-off?

Risk Behavior

no BPD

sub BPD

BPD

p

Self-injury

  lifetime, yes n (%)

51 (70.83)

78 (93.98)

109 (100.00)

< .0001

  past 12 months, days

67.55 (137.53)

61.22 (69.48)

98.28 (91.13)

.024

 age of onset, years

12.80 (1.51)

13.09 (2.01)

12.94 (1.75)

.790

Suicide attempts

  lifetime, yes n (%)

14 (19.72)

42 (50.60)

74 (67.89)

< .0001

  lifetime attempts

4.86 (5.99)

7.83 (24.62)

6.51 (14.18)

.849

Sex with people barely knew, n (%)

   

.002

  not at all/ a little bit like me

58 (89.23)

64 (84.21)

78 (76.47)

 

  somewhat like me

7 (10.77)

6 (7.89)

8 (7.84)

 

  quite a bit/ extremely like me

0 (0.00)

6 (7.89)

16 (15.69)

 

Drinking too much, n (%)

   

< .0001

  not at all/ a little bit like me

64 (95.52)

63 (82.89)

68 (65.38)

 

  somewhat like me

2 (2.99)

5 (6.58)

14 (13.46)

 

  quite a bit/ extremely like me

1 (1.49)

8 (10.53)

22 (21.15)

 

Drug consumption, n (%)

   

< .0001

  not at all/ a little bit like me

62 (93.94)

63 (84.00)

78 (75.73)

 

  somewhat like me

2 (3.03)

6 (8.00)

5 (4.85)

 

  quite a bit/ extremely like me

2 (3.03)

6 (8.00)

20 (19.42)

 

Delinquent behavior / breaking the law, n (%)

   

.033

  not at all/ a little bit like me

55 (83.33)

61 (79.22)

71 (68.27)

 

  somewhat like me

2 (3.03)

4 (5.19)

16 (15.38)

 

  quite a bit/ extremely like me

9 (13.64)

12 (15.58)

17 (16.35)

 
  1. values represent means and standard deviations (SD) in brackets, unless otherwise indicated; p values refer to one-way ANOVA (continuous data) or Chi-Square tests for categorical/dichotomy data; Some missing data on risk-behaviour items, as indicated by percentage values; item response have been collapsed for readability (not at all like me and a little bit like me; quite a bit like me and extremely like me), analyses were performed on full 5-point scales