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Table 1 Age and ethnicity groupings of participants

From: Does trait mindfulness mediate the relationship between borderline personality symptoms and emotion dysregulation?

Characteristic

Non Treatment Seeking N = 409

Treatment Seeking

Low BPD

N = 333

Treatment Seeking

High BPD

N = 219

Full sample

N = 1012

n

%

n

%

n

%

n

%

Age Group

 18–29

90

22.0

75

22.5

91

41.6

267

26.4

 30–44

133

32.5

117

35.1

71

32.4

337

33.3

 45–59

154

37.7

103

30.9

43

19.6

314

31.0

 60 + 

31

7.6

38

11.4

14

6.4

92

9.1

 prefer not to say

1

0.2

0

0

0

0

2

0.2

Ethnicity

 Asian/ Asian British

16

3.9

13

3.9

6

2.7

38

3.8

 Black/ African/ Caribbean/ Black British

14

3.4

8

2.4

7

3.2

31

3.1

 Chinese/ Chinese British

3

0.7

3

0.9

1

0.5

7

0.7

 Mixed Ethnicity

9

2.2

8

2.4

3

1.4

20

2.0

 Other

4

1.0

7

2.1

3

1.4

14

1.4

 White (British)

332

81.2

265

79.6

174

79.5

810

80.0

 White Other

30

7.3

27

8.1

24

11.0

86

8.5

 prefer not to say

1

0.2

2

0.6

1

0.5

6

0.6