Table 7.
The Inventory of Personality Organisation (IPO) subscales and Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire-Revised (PDQ-R) subscales among outpatients (N = 138)
| Narcissistic personality | Borderline personality | |
| Mean (standard deviation) | 2.4 (1.6) | 2.0 (1.6) |
| Primitive Defences | 0.37*** (0.36***) | 0.37*** (0.35***) |
| Identity Diffusion | 0.55*** (0.48***) | 0.54*** (0.51***) |
| Reality Testing | 0.55*** (0.51***) | 0.57*** (0.53***) |
| Aggression | 0.57*** (0.51***) | 0.58*** (0.55***) |
| Moral Value | 0.53*** (0.46***) | 0.45*** (0.41***) |
| Age | -0.37*** | 0.22* |
| Gender (men 1: women 2)a | -0.05 | 0.04 |
aGender was unknown for one case.
*P < 0.05; **P < 0.01; ***P < 0.001; parentheses indicate partial correlations controlling for age and gender.