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Table 5 Differences in BPD symptoms, emotion regulation, anxiety and depression between BPD clusters

From: Cluster analysis of personality traits in psychiatric patients with borderline personality disorder

  

Lower psychopathology cluster,

mean (SD)

Externalizing cluster,

mean (SD)

Internalizing cluster, mean (SD)

Effect size partial η2

F

Post-hoc

BSL

 

2.2 (0.7)

2.7 (0.7)

2.7 (0.7)

0.12

9.35

A < B**, A < C***

DERS-16

Nonacceptance

3.4 (1.1)

3.6 (1.2)

3.9 (1.1)

0.12

2.12

 

Goals

4.2 (0.8)

4.4 (0.9)

4.6 (0.5)

0.08

5.55

A < C**

Impulse

3.6 (1.1)

4.3 (0.9)

4.3 (0.8)

0.13

9.81

A < B**, A < C***

Strategies

3.6 (1)

4.0 (0.9)

4.3 (0.6)

0.11

8.10

A < C***

Clarity

3.5 (1)

3.9 (0.9)

3.9 (0.9)

0.05

3.40

 

Total

3.7 (0.7)

4.1 (0.7)

4.2 (0.6)

0.13

10.10

A < B*, A < C***

EUC-13

 

2.7 (0.5)

3.0 (0.4)

2.6 (0.5)

0.09

6.38

C < B*

HSCL-25

Anxiety

2.5 (0.5)

2.8 (0.5)

2.8 (0.5)

0.06

4.13

A < C*

Depression

2.7 (0.6)

3.0 (0.5)

3.0 (0.5)

0.07

5.32

A < C**

Total

2.6 (0.5)

2.9 (0.5)

2.9 (0.4)

0.08

5.93

A < B*, A < C**

  1. Note. BPD = Borderline personality disorder. BSL-23 = Borderline Symptom List 23. DERS-16 = Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale-16. EUC-13 = Ego Undercontrol Scale – 13. HSCL-25 = Hopkins Symptom Checklist – 25. Three missing participants for DERS-16, three missing participants for EUC-13. Effect size partial η2 small: 0.01, moderate: 0.06, large: 0.14 (37). Post-hoc Tukey *p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001