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Table 1 Sample description

From: Trustworthiness judgments and Borderline Personality Disorder: an experimental study on the interplay of happiness and trustworthiness appraisals and the effects of wearing face masks during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany

 

HC

N = 67

BPD

N = 75

Test statistics

P

M

SD

M

SD

Agea

33.06

7.13

33.72

8.53

−0.50

.620

Education (%)c

    

2245

.119

 - Vocational school

11.90

–

20.00

–

  

 - Comprehensive/Academic- secondary school

82.10

–

77.30

–

  

 - Other

6.00

–

2.70

–

  

Psychopathology

 BSL-23a

0.28

0.29

1.71

0.91

−12.82

< .001***

 VEI-BORa

17.00

8.07

46.25

10.88

−18.02

< .001***

 BDI-IIa

7.69

5.94

25.53

14.00

−10.07

< .001***

Childhood traumatization

 CTQa

28.69

3.29

58.97

19.80

−13.05

< .001***

Interpersonal trust propensity

 KUSIV-3a

3.81

0.56

2.89

0.89

7.49

< .001***

Current affective state

 SAM-valenceb

3.01

1.42

4.89

1.86

1034

< .001***

 SAM-arousalb

6.39

1.83

4.97

1.86

1470

< .001***

Evaluations of wearing masks

 Somatic burdenb

2.34

1.52

3.07

1.56

1798

.003**

 Emotional burdenb

3.60

1.42

3.30

1.47

2275

.328

 Reliefb

2.80

1.46

3.21

1.48

2110

.097(*)

 Protective benefitb

4.52

1.10

4.08

1.09

1983

.028*

 Complianceb

5.07

0.83

4.95

0.95

2420

.698

  1. aStudent’s t
  2. bMann-Whitney U
  3. cChi-Square