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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Feb 24.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Med. 2007 Sep 25;38(1):135–146. doi: 10.1017/S0033291707001626

Table 3.

Comparison of mean RAPFA scores in the no-PD, APD and BPD groups

No-PD (n = 25) APD (n = 27) BPD (n = 46) F(3, 94), p pNA pNB pAB
Work 4.2 (1.8) 6.3 (1.8) 7.0 (1.4) 25.4, <0.0001 <0.001 <0.001 0.19
Romantic 6.0 (1.8) 7.3 (1.9) 8.1 (0.9) 16.8, <0.0001 0.012 <0.001 0.045
Friends 4.2 (1.7) 6.2 (2.2) 6.4 (1.6) 13.6, <0.0001 0.001 <0.001 1.00
Non-specific 3.4 (1.6) 4.9 (2.1) 5.6 (1.9) 10.5, <0.0001 0.006 <0.001 1.00
Total 17.7 (5.0) 24.7 (5.1) 27.1 (3.9) 34.2, <0.0001 <0.001 <0.001 0.14

RAPFA, Revised Adult Personality Disorder Functioning Assessment; no-PD, no personality disorder; APD, avoidant personality disorder; BPD, borderline personality disorder; pNA, no-PD v. APD; pNB, no-PD v. BPD; pAB, APD v. BPD.

Unadjusted means are shown. The p values are for post-hoc pairwise comparisons using the Bonferroni statistic in a multivariate analysis of covariance controlling for age.