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?

Table 4 Group Contrast on Psychopathological Distress; Sidak corrected contrasts from one way analysis of variance

Dimension of Psychopathological Distress	no BPD vs. subthreshold BPD			no BPD vs. full-syndrome BPD			subthreshold BPD vs. full-syndrome BPD
	MD	ES	p	MD	ES	p	MD	ES	p
Somatization	0.45	-.55	.003	0.57	-.69	.000	0.12	-.15	.669
Obsessive-Compulsive	0.55	-.68	< .0001	0.73	-.94	< .0001	0.18	-.23	.313
Interpersonal Sensitivity	0.74	-.83	< .0001	1.02	−1.11	< .0001	0.27	-.32	.103
Depression	0.77	-.81	< .0001	0.98	−1.12	< .0001	0.22	-.26	.248
Anxiety	0.50	-.57	.002	0.73	-.84	< .0001	0.24	-.27	.179
Hostility	0.60	-.71	< .0001	0.92	−1.03	< .0001	0.32	-.35	.040
Phobic Anxiety	0.38	-.44	.027	0.60	-.66	< .0001	0.21	-.23	.282
Paranoid Ideation	0.68	-.81	< .0001	0.84	-.92	< .0001	0.16	-.18	.534
Psychoticism	0.54	-.69	< .0001	0.77	-.96	< .0001	0.23	-.28	.149
Global Severity Index	0.58	-.81	< .0001	0.79	−1.13	< .0001	0.21	-.32	.107

MD, mean difference; ES: Effect Size Cohen's d; p: p-values referring to significant group differences from planned contrasts; for clarity: scores refer to scale scores that range from 0 (minimum) to 4 (maximum), greater scores reflecting greater psychopathological distress in the index group compared against the respective reference group

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