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

Table 3 Results from multilevel analyses in which Positive Affect (PA) is predicted by a random intercept, by Appraisals and PA at the previous time point at level 1, again modeled in function of a healthy control (HC) dummy and a Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) dummy at level 2

						Difference groups
Fixed Effect	Coeff.	SE	t-ratio	df	p-value	χ2 (df)	p-value
For intercept, β₀
BPDdummy, γ₀₁	29.37	3.21	9.15	56	< 0.001	71.18 (1)	<.001
HCdummy, γ₀₂	62.99	2.36	26.66	56	< 0.001
For goal relevance at t-1 slope, β₁
BPDdummy, γ₁₁	−0.02	0.03	−0.84	56	0.405	4.32 (1)	.035
HCdummy, γ₁₂	0.05	0.02	2.29	56	0.026
For goal congruence at t-1 slope, β₂
BPDdummy, γ₂₁	0.06	0.04	1.52	56	0.135	0.06 (1)	>.500
HCdummy, γ₂₂	0.07	0.03	2.19	56	0.033
For emotion-focused coping potential at t-1 slope, β₃
BPDdummy, γ₃₁	0.07	0.04	1.81	56	0.075	0.86 (1)	>.500
HCdummy, γ₃₂	0.13	0.04	2.93	56	0.005
For PA at t-1 slope, β₄
BPDdummy, γ₄₁	0.28	0.05	5.65	56	< 0.001	0.19 (1)	>.500
HCdummy, γ₄₂	0.25	0.05	5.54	56	< 0.001
For intercept, β₀
BPDdummy, γ₀₁	29.39	3.21	9.17	56	< 0.001	71.21 (1)	<.001
HCdummy, γ₀₂	62.99	2.36	26.67	56	< 0.001
For disappointed self t-1 slope, β₁
BPDdummy, γ₁₁	−0.09	0.04	−2.38	56	0.021	0.00 (1)	>.500
HCdummy, γ₁₂	−0.08	0.03	−2.49	56	0.016
For disappointed someone else t-1 slope, β₂
BPDdummy, γ₂₁	0.00	0.02	0.13	56	0.894	1.76 (1)	.182
HCdummy, γ₂₂	0.05	0.03	1.78	56	0.081
For trust self t-1slope, β₃
BPDdummy, γ₃₁	−0.02	0.03	−0.47	56	0.642	0.52 (1)	>.500
HCdummy, γ₃₂	0.01	0.02	0.60	56	0.553
For trust someone else t-1 slope, β₄
BPDdummy, γ₄₁	0.03	0.04	0.83	56	0.410	3.00 (1)	.079
HCdummy, γ₄₂	0.13	0.05	2.86	56	0.006
For PA at t-1 slope, β₅
BPDdummy, γ₅₁	0.30	0.04	6.75	56	< 0.001	0.10 (1)	>.500
HCdummy, γ₅₂	0.28	0.05	5.95	56	< 0.001

Coeff. Coefficient, SE Standard error. All predictors were entered person-mean centered. Different models were estimated for the general emotional appraisals and BPD-specific evaluations. Differences between diagnostic dummies slopes are tested using general linear hypothesis testing

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