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Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychopathol. 2009 Fall;21(4):1263–1291. doi: 10.1017/S0954579409990150

Table 2.

Hierarchical Regression Analyses Exploring the Roles of Sensation Seeking, Affective Dysfunction, and their Interaction in Childhood Borderline Personality Symptoms, Emotion Regulation, and Ego-Control, Controlling for Depression and Anxiety Symptom Severity and Delinquent Behaviors (N = 263)

	Borderline Personality Symptoms					Emotion Regulation					Ego-Control
	β	b (SE)	Adj R²	R²_Δ	F	β	b (SE)	Adj R²	R²_Δ	F	β	b (SE)	Adj R²	R²_Δ	F
Step 1			.02	.03^*	3.28^*			.00	.01	1.36			.05	.06^**	7.81^**
Depression/anxiety	.11	.03 (.02)				.11	.02 (.01)				−.17^**	−.19 (.07)
Delinquent behaviors	.08	.11 (.09)				−.02	−.02 (.07)				−.12	−.74 (.38)
Step 2			.53	.52^***	76.02^***			.11	.12^***	9.33^***			.16	.11^***	13.15^***
Sensation Seeking (SS)	.12^**	.52 (.20)				−.12	−.38 (.21)				−.11	−2.17 (1.22)
Affective dysfunction (AD)	.70^***	2.99 (.18)				−.32^***	−1.04 (.19)				−.31^***	−6.02 (1.11)
Step 3			.54	.01^*	62.95^***			.11	.00	7.45^***			.16	.01	11.17^***
SS × AD	.10^*	.38 (.16)				.01	.04 (.18)				−.10	−1.71 (1.01)

Note. SS × AD = sensation seeking × affective dysfunction interaction.

p < .05.

^**

p < .01.

^***

p < .001.