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Table 1 Descriptive Statistics for the Positive Affect (PA) and Negative Affect (NA) and each of the appraisals under investigation

From: Emotional reactivity to appraisals in patients with a borderline personality disorder: a daily life study

Emotion

BPD group

Healthy controls

Difference between groups

Mean

SE

Mean

SE

χ2(df)

p-value

PA

28.79

2.99

62.61

2.28

80.90 (1)

<.001

NA

36.90

3.87

7.44

1.32

51.97 (1)

<.001

Emotional appraisals

 Goal relevance

59.06

2.80

62.09

3.25

0.50 (1)

>.500

 Goal congruence

40.45

3.28

64.75

2.27

37.13 (1)

<.001

 Emotion-focused coping potential

45.26

3.16

78.83

2.90

61.20 (1)

<.001

BPD-specific evaluations

 Disappointment in self

44.59

4.29

7.72

1.77

63.10 (1)

<.001

 Disappointment in someone else

34.01

4.43

15.32

3.99

9.82 (1)

.002

 Trust in self

31.89

3.60

72.66

2.78

80.33 (1)

<.001

 Trust in someone else

36.56

4.75

69.24

3.85

28.52 (1)

<.001

  1. BPD Borderline personality disorder, SE Standard error. Results are based on two-level models with each variable under investigation being predicted by a random intercept at level 1, and diagnostic dummies (leaving out the intercept) at level 2. Differences between diagnostic dummies slopes are tested using general linear hypothesis testing