. 2023 Oct 27;14:1267038. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1267038

Table 2.

Intercorrelations among key study variables.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
1. Severity of ELM	1
2. Child abuse potential	0.365^**b	1
3. VASQ Insec	0.438^**b	0.525^**b	1
4. Trait Anger	0.257^**b	0.306^**b	0.518^**b	1
5. Anger-in	0.288^**b	0.357^**b	0.563^**b	0.306^**b	1
6. Anger-out	0.148^*b	0.184^**b	0.289^**b	0.738^**b	0.045^b	1
7. Years of education	−0.164^**b	−0.218^**b	−0.220^**b	0.059^b	−0.184^**b	0.101^b	1
8. Maternal age	−0.111 ^b	−0.106^b	−0.150^*b	−0.030^b	−0.109^b	−0.030^b	0.274^**b	1
9. rMDD	0.283^**a	0.335^**a	0.444^**a	0.228^**a	0.305^**a	0.155^*a	−0.115^a	0.009^a	1
10. BPD	0.290^**a	0.307^**a	0.427^**a	0.409^**a	0.314^**a	0.330^**a	−0.145^*a	−0.254^**a	0.207^**c	1
11. Other current psychiatric disorders	0.283^**a	0.207^**a	0.367^**a	0.188^**a	0.173^**a	0.116^a	−0.115^a	−0.184^**a	0.334^{** c}	0.304^**c	1
12. Nationality	0.029^a	−0.095^a	−0.072^a	−0.087^a	−0.053^a	−0.052^a	0.008^a	0.046 ^a	−0.015^c	−0.035^c	−0.04^c	1
13. Partnership status	−0.053^a	−0.168^**a	−0.090^a	0.024^a	0.002^a	0.014^a	0.062^a	−0.045^a	−0.183^**c	−0.106^c	−0.038^c	0.038^c	1

Anger-in, Anger suppression; Anger-out, Outwardly expressed anger; BPD, Borderline personality disorder; ELM, Early-life maltreatment; rMDD, Major depressive disorder in remission; VASQ Insec, Attachment insecurity. ^aPoint-biserial correlation coefficient. ^bPearson’s r correlation coefficient. ^cPhi coefficient. ^**p < 0.01, ^*p < 0.05.