. 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 6.

Associations between domain disorganization (DD) and BPD symptoms in the younger and older age groups

	Younger (age 39 and younger)		Older (age 40 and older)

	No DD (n = 27)	DD present (n = 33)	No DD (n = 31)	DD present (n = 25)
Mean (S.D.)	3.9 (4.3)	9.7 (4.6)	3.1 (3.7)	5.0 (4.1)
Mean difference	5.8 (3.4–8.1), p < 0.001		1.9 (−0.2 to 4.0), p = 0.07

BPD, Borderline personality disorder; S.D., standard deviation.

The mean differences and values of p were obtained from independent groups t tests. DD ‘present’ was based on a 2–3 threshold for DD scores. In ANCOVA controlling for total RAPFA social dysfunction, there was a DD (absent – present) by age group interaction, F(1, 111) = 5.1, p = 0.026.