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

Table 5.

Hierarchical Regression Analyses Examining the Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation and Ego-Control in the Relationship between Sensation Seeking and Affective Dysfunction (and their Interaction) and Childhood Borderline Personality Symptoms for Girls and Boys Separately.

	Girls (n = 118)					Boys (n = 145)
	β	b (SE)	R² (Adj)	R²_Δ	F	β	b (SE)	R² (Adj)	R²_Δ	F
Step 1			.06 (.05)	.06^*	3.79^*			.01 (.00)	.01	1.03
Depression/anxiety	.13	.03 (.02)				.12	.03 (.02)
Delinquent behaviors	.17	.23 (.13)				−.01	−.02 (.12)
Step 2			.50 (.48)	.44^***	28.47^***			.60 (.59)	.58^***	51.83^***
Depression/anxiety	.00	.00 (.02)				.10	.03 (.02)
Delinquent behaviors	.01	.01 (.10)				−.01	−.02 (.09)
Sensation seeking	.19^**	.74 (.28)				.08	.37 (.28)
Affective dysfunction	.64^***	2.45 (.26)				.75^***	3.43 (.25)
Step 3			.53 (.51)	.03^**	25.48^***			.60 (.58)	.00	41.24^***
Depression/anxiety	.04	.01 (.02)				.10	.03 (.02)
Delinquent behaviors	−.01	−.02 (.09)				−.01	−.02 (.09)
Sensation seeking	.19^**	.72 (.27)				.08	.36 (.28)
Affective dysfunction	.63^***	2.39 (.26)				.75^***	3.42 (.25)
Sensation seeking × Affective dysfunction	.18^**	.64 (.24)				.02	.09 (.22)
Step 4			.63 (.61)	.10^***	27.21^***			.68 (.66)	.08^***	40.69^***
Depression/anxiety	.01	.00 (.01)				.06	.02 (.01)
Delinquent behaviors	−.03	−.04 (.08)				.01	.01 (.08)
Sensation seeking	.19^**	.74 (.24)				.00	.01 (.27)
Affective dysfunction	.48^***	1.84 (.25)				.63^***	2.89 (.26)
Sensation seeking × Affective dysfunction	.12	.42 (.22)				.02	.08 (.20)
Emotion regulation	−.21^**	−.80 (.23)				−.09	−.39 (.25)
Ego-control	−.27^***	−1.03 (.25)				−.31^***	−1.41 (.25)

p < .05.

^**

p < .01.

^***

p < .001.