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Table 3 Discharge means, standard deviations, and 95% confidence intervals for DERS scores

From: Variations of emotion dysregulation in borderline personality disorder: a latent profile analysis approach with adult psychiatric inpatients

 

Low Impairment (n = 38)

Global Dysregulation (n = 67)

Emotionally Aware (n = 46)

Scale

M(SD)

95% CI

M(SD)

95% CI

M(SD)

95% CI

Nonaccept

11.74 (4.75)a

[10.23, 13.24]

15.58 (6.51)b

[13.99, 17.17]

13.11 (6.77)ab

[11.10, 15.12]

Goal

12.00 (4.43)a

[10.54, 13.46]

15.97 (5.23)b

[14.70, 17.24]

15.46 (5.14)b

[13.93, 16.98]

Impulse

11.05 (4.32)a

[9.63, 12.47]

15.45 (6.02)b

[13.98, 16.92]

12.72 (4.89a

[11.26, 14.17]

Awareness

15.55 (5.29)ab

[13.81, 17.29]

17.24 (5.29)a

[15.95, 18.53]

13.11 (4.79)b

[11.68, 14.53]

Strategies

15.61 (6.01)a

[13.61, 17.60]

21.82 (8.07)b

[19.84, 23.77]

19.24 (7.74)ab

[16.94, 21.54]

Clarity

11.89 (4.35)a

[10.47, 13.32]

13.85 (4.20)b

[12.83, 14.88]

10.77 (3.63)a

[9.96, 11.03]

  1. Nonaccept DERS nonacceptance of emotional responses, Goal DERS difficulties engaging in goal-directed behavior, Impulse DERS impulse control difficulties, Awareness DERS lack of emotional awareness, Strategies DERS limited access to emotion regulation strategies, Clarity DERS lack of emotional clarity. Means with the same superscripts within a row are not significantly different. Means with different superscripts within a row are significantly different at the .05 level, as determined by Tukey’s post hoc test