Self-disgust in patients with borderline personality disorder. The associations with alexithymia, emotion dysregulation, and comorbid psychopathology

Table 2 Associations between self-disgust, disgust sensitivity, core and comorbid psychopathology measures in the BPD group and in the HCs group

	BPD group				HCs group
	SDS	SDS Appearance	SDS Self-concept	SDS Behavior	SDS	SDS Appearance	SDS Self-concept	SDS Behavior
BPD Checklist total score	0.41***	0.28**	0.34***	0.43***	0.55***	0.42***	0.48***	0.47***
BPD Abandonment	0.26**	0.14	0.20*	0.33***	0.41***	0.35***	0.30**	0.38***
BPD Relationships	0.38***	0.22*	0.28**	0.45***	0.13	0.12	0.10	0.10
BPD Identity/Self-concept	0.45***	0.24*	0.42***	0.48***	0.58***	0.43***	0.53***	0.50***
BPD Impulsivity	0.15	0.16	0.11	0.13	0.22*	0.14	0.19	0.23*
BPD Self-mutilation/Parasuicide	0.34***	0.34***	0.22*	0.29**	0.17	0.06	0.18	0.19
BPD Mood	0.32***	0.28**	0.25*	0.29**	0.39***	0.26**	0.41***	0.32***
BPD Emptiness	0.46***	0.37***	0.46***	0.34***	0.45***	0.47***	0.33***	0.30**
BPD Anger	0.27**	0.17	0.27**	0.26**	0.33***	0.23*	0.34***	0.27**
BPD Paranoid/Dissociation	0.28**	0.18	0.21*	0.32***	0.43***	0.34***	0.37***	0.37***
EDS	0.48***	0.35***	0.44***	0.43***	0.52***	0.38***	0.50***	0.42***
TAS-20	0.35***	0.33***	0.30**	0.27**	0.46***	0.38***	0.39***	0.39***
STAI-State	0.27**	0.28**	0.22*	0.19	0.42***	0.40***	0.41***	0.24*
STAI-Trait	0.50***	0.42***	0.45***	0.41***	0.65***	0.55***	0.56***	0.52***
CESD-R	0.41***	0.40***	0.29**	0.36***	0.46***	0.37***	0.45***	0.32***
DS-R	0.04	0.01	0.13	–0.03	0.07	0.10	0.15	0.11
DS-R Core	0.13	0.08	0.21*	0.05	0.07	0.09	0.06	0.02
DS-R Animal reminder	–0.02	–0.04	0.06	–0.06	0.18	0.06	0.18	0.20*
DS-R Contamination	–0.08	–0.04	–0.02	–0.13	0.08	0.07	0.13	–0.01

Note. SDS – Self-Disgust Scale; BPD Checklist – Borderline Personality Disorder Checklist; EDS – Emotional Dysregulation Scale; TAS-20 – Toronto Alexithymia Scale; TAS-20 DDF – difficulty describing feelings subscale; TAS-20 DIF – difficulty identifying feeling subscale; TAS-20 EOT – externally-oriented thinking subscale; STAI-State – state anxiety measured by the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory; STAI-Trait – trait anxiety measured by the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory; CESD-R – The Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale–Revised; DS-R – Disgust Sensitivity Scale.
* p < 0.05. ** p < 0.01. *** p < 0.001

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