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Published in final edited form as: Ind Relat (Berkeley). 2011 Jan;50(1):149–173. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-232X.2010.00629.x

Table 3.

Association of Personality Disorders with Labor Market Outcomes, Women, Age 25-64

Explanatory
Variable
Worked at a job or
occupation, past
year
Working full-time
at interview date
Unemployed and
looking for work
>1 month, past
year
Fired or laid off,
past year
Had trouble with
boss or co-worker,
past year
Sample Full sample Full Sample Full sample Fired or laid off,
past year
Had trouble with
boss or co-worker,
past year

N 16,061 16,061 16,053 12,576 12,574

Baseline
Proportions or
Means
0.780 0.539 0.077 0.068 0.117

Any PD 0.013
[−0.003, 0.028]
−0.006
[−0.031, 0.019]
0.045 *
[0.028, 0.065]
0.032 *
[0.014, 0.051]
0.140 *
[0.116, 0.165]

Antisocial 0.003
[−0.034, 0.035]
−0.104 *
[−0.168, −0.039]
0.049 *
[0.011, 0.097]
0.044 *
[0.005, 0.097]
0.066 *
[0.016, 0.127]
Avoidant 0.013
[−0.023, 0.042]
−0.011
[−0.066, 0.044]
0.015
[−0.014, 0.050]
0.015
[−0.014, 0.054]
0.029
[−0.013, 0.081]
Obsessive-
Compulsive
0.029 *
[0.009, 0.047]
0.009
[−0.020, 0.037]
0.018
[−0.004, 0.041]
0.006
[−0.012, 0.028]
0.093 *
[0.065, 0.123]
Paranoid −0.015
[−0.044, 0.011]
−0.005
[−0.048, 0.036]
0.024
[−0.003, 0.055]
0.024
[−0.003, 0.058]
0.073 *
[0.032, 0.120]
Schizoid −0.001
[−0.033, 0.025]
0.023
[−0.021, 0.065]
0.018
[−0.008, 0.048]
0.019
[−0.010, 0.056]
0.009
[−0.025, 0.050]
Histrionic −0.009
[−0.060, 0.032]
0.016
[−0.050, 0.079]
0.025
[−0.006, 0.064]
0.019
[−0.018, 0.071]
0.025
[−0.019, 0.082]

Source: 2001-2002 National Epidemiological Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC)

*

Differences between individuals with and without PD significant at p≤.05

Notes: Differences in predicted probabilities are shown for all binary outcomes, which were estimated with probit. 95% confidence intervals are in parentheses. All estimates are weighted and correct for county-level clustering. All regressions control for the full set of explanatory variables listed in Table 1.Reference categories include white race, married or living as married, and less than high school education. Although controlled for in all specifications, results are not reported for PD’s reported in less than 1% of the sample.