Table 1. Demographic and clinical composition of specific personality disorder groups and non-BPD personality disorder group.
| Personality disorder study groups | |||||||||||
| Borderline | Paranoid | Schizoid | Dissocial | Histrionic | OCPDa | Avoidant | Dependent | Unspecified | Non-BPD PDb | ||
| (n = 1043) | (n = 194) | (n = 106) | (n = 64) | (n = 45) | (n = 131) | (n = 918) | (n = 232) | (n = 946) | (n = 2636) | ||
| Gender,female (%) | 86 | 55* | 51* | 19* | 80 | 51* | 62* | 79 | 62* | 61* | |
| Age in years(Mean ± SD) | 35.5±10.8 | 41.0*±12.7 | 38.5±12.3 | 35.5±10.4 | 47.2*±11.4 | 43.0*±10.7 | 40.3*±11.0 | 42.0*±11.3 | 40.0*±12.0 | 40.4*±11.6 | |
| Living alone/notliving alonec (%) | 70/30 | 70/30 | 71/29 | 71/29 | 70/30 | 47/53* | 59/41* | 57/43* | 62/38* | 61/39* | |
| Educationd(Mean ± SD) | 2.8±0.8 | 2.9±0.9 | 3.1*±1.0 | 2.3*±0.8 | 3.3*±1.0 | 3.5*±0.9 | 3.0*±0.9 | 3.2*±0.9 | 3.2*±0.9 | 3.1*±0.9 | |
| Treatment length(mo)(Mean ± SD) | 25±34 | 27±33 | 35±43 | 18±24 | 32±30 | 36±47 | 28±34 | 36*±42 | 28±36 | 29*±36 | |
| Substance usedisorder (%) | 5.8 | 5.2 | 1.9 | 28.1* | 4.4 | .8 | 2.0* | 2.6 | 3.1 | 3.3* | |
| Psychotic disorder (%) | 1.8 | 2.1 | .9 | 7.8* | 4.4 | .0 | .4 | .0 | 1.9 | 1.3 | |
a
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.
b
Non-BPD personality disorder.
c
Living alone = not married, separated/divorced, widowed/widower; Not living alone = married, cohabitant.
d
Education was rated on a five point scale: 1 = incomplete primary school, 2 = primary school, 3 = high school, 4 = university BA, 5 = university MA.
*
Differ significantly from BPD group (p<.0025).