Table 2.
Spearman correlation coefficients describing relationships of dissociation with other psychopathological symptoms and with doses of antipsychotic medication in patients with schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder
| EC
|
HoNOS (E)
|
HoNOS (S)
|
DES
|
DES-AB
|
DES-AM
|
DES-DD
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sch | BPD | Sch | BPD | Sch | BPD | Sch | BPD | Sch | BPD | Sch | BPD | Sch | BPD | |
| HoNOS (E) | 0.2 | 0.04 | – | |||||||||||
| HoNOS (S) | −0.22 | 0.28 | 0.48 | 0.7 | – | |||||||||
| DES | 0.17 | 0.37 | 0.34 | 0.37 | 0.53 | 0.52 | – | |||||||
| DES-AB | 0.08 | 0.29 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.47 | 0.51 | 0.88 | 0.84 | – | |||||
| DES-AM | 0.14 | 0.28 | −0.02 | 0.25 | 0.17 | 0.26 | 0.64 | 0.76 | 0.5 | 0.67 | – | |||
| DES-DD | −0.03 | 0.37 | 0.53 | 0.35 | 0.65 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 0.77 | 0.61 | 0.44 | 0.36 | 0.48 | – | |
| TSC-40 | 0.03 | 0.08 | 0.41 | 0.56 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.53 | 0.49 | 0.46 | 0.28 | 0.38 | 0.75 | 0.43 |
Notes: values at P<0.05 are in bold; Fisher’s exact test Z is higher than 0.05.
Abbreviations: EC, daily doses of antipsychotic medication in equivalents of chlorpromazine (mg); HoNOS (E), version for external evaluation of HoNOS; HoNOS (S), self-rating version of HoNOS; DES, Dissociative Experiences Scale; DES-AB, factor of absorption in DES; DES-AM, factor of amnesia in DES; DES-DD, factor for depersonalization/derealization of DES; TSC-40, Trauma Symptom Checklist-40; Sch, schizophrenia; BPD, borderline personality disorder.