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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 24.
Published in final edited form as: J Abnorm Psychol. 2012 Mar 19;121(4):944–950. doi: 10.1037/a0027410

Table 2.

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th ed. (DSM-IV) and Five-Factor Model of Personality (FFM) Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and Antisocial Personality Disorder (APD) Scores in Relation to Functioning

Borderline PD
Comparison PD
DSM-IV BPD FFM BPD DSM-IV APD FFM APD
Self-harm
 No intent to die .45*a .39*a,b .10b .24a,b
 Intent to die .56*a .36*a,b .14b .14b
Aggression–perpetration
 Aggression .38*a .33*a .23a .37*a
 Assault .35*a .20a .31*a .32*a
Aggression–victimization
 Aggression .31*a .27a .17a .21a
 Assault .23a .21a .12a .15a
Interpersonal Functioning
 Interpersonal sensitivity .55*a,c .73*a .18b .34*b,c
 Interpersonal ambivalence .38*a,b .55*a .16b .37*a,b
 Aggression .47*a .59*a .32*a .45*a
 Need for approval .46*a .59*a .02b .05b
 Lack of sociability .44*a,b .56*a .17b .16b
Functioning
 Distress .62*a .64*a .22b .17b
 Romantic .44*a .39*a .30*a .19a
 Parental .58*a .44*a,b .58*a .30b
 Occupational .54*a .46*a .59*a .37*a
 Social .54*a .45*a .41*a .27a
 Distress on others .76*a .59*a,b .52*b .46*b

Note. Correlations with different superscripts in the same row indicate that these correlations are significantly different from one another (p <.001); correlations with the same superscript in the same row are not statistically significantly different from one another.

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p <.001.