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Table 3 Observed mean differences in BPD severity and related symptom severity

From: Associations of state or trait dissociation with severity of psychopathology in young people with borderline personality disorder

  

Dissociation

     
  

Absent

Present

    

95% CIa

  

M (SD)

M (SD)

t

df

p

d

Lower

Upper

State dissociation

        
 

CESD-R

36.22 (11.21)

43.64 (9.35)

-2.20

49

0.032*

-0.69

-14.21

-0.65

 

PSQ

83.99 (12.10)

92.37 (12.62)

-2.18

49

0.034*

-0.68

-16.10

-0.67

 

PSS-SR

18.71 (9.82)

28.50 (11.29)

-3.05

49

0.004**

-0.96

-16.24

-3.34

 

BPDSI-IV

22.36 (9.97)

29.65 (12.45)

-2.18

49

0.034*

-0.68

-14.03

-0.56

Trait dissociation

        
 

CESD-R

38.29 (2.05)

38.22 (2.45)

0.02

49

0.98

0.01

-6.30

6.44

 

PSQ

86.56 (2.19)

85.97 (2.96)

0.16

49

0.87

0.05

-6.66

7.84

 

PSS-SR

19.75 (2.08)

23.41 (2.29)

-1.18

49

0.24

-0.33

-9.88

2.56

 

BPDSI-IV

22.37 (1.93)

26.78 (2.46)

-1.43

49

0.16

-0.40

-10.60

1.79

  1. Note: * indicates significance at p < 0.05,
  2. ** indicates significance after Bonferroni correction (p < 0.00625),
  3. a 95% CI = 95% confidence interval for the population mean difference