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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Depress Anxiety. 2011 Feb 24;28(5):393–399. doi: 10.1002/da.20798

Table 3.

PTSD total symptom severity in relation to negative affect intensity and affective lability in participants with borderline personality disorder (n=67)

F R2 t β sr2
Criterion Variable: Negative Affect Intensity 5.86** .22
Level 1 .10**
    Number of Traumas 2.68** .32 .10
Level 2 .12*
    Number of Traumas 1.07 .14 .01
    BPD Symptom Severity 1.04 .13 .01
    PTSD Symptom Severity 2.34* .32 .07
Criterion Variable: Affective Lability 10.49** .25
    BPD Symptom Severity .28 .03 .00
    PTSD Symptom Severity 4.01** .48 .19

Note:

*

p < .05,

**

p < .01;

Negative Affect Intensity = Affect Intensity Measure – Negative Affect subscale mean [36]; Number of Traumas = Number of Criterion A events endorsed on the Traumatic Life Events Questionnaire [26]; BPD Symptom Severity = Structured Interview for DSM-IV Personality – Borderline Personality Disorder symptom severity total [27]; PTSD total Symptom Severity = PTSD Checklist – Civilian Version for DSM-IV [32]; Affective Lability = Affective Lability Scale – total score mean [37].