Table 1. Demographic Characteristics and Affective Lability Scale (ALS) Scores for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Bulimia Nervosa (BN) Participants, and Healthy Controls (HC).
Variable | BPD (n = 43) | CC = PTSD + BN (n = 48) | PTSD (n = 28) | BN (n = 20) | HC (n = 28) | p |
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Age in years | ||||||
M (SD) | 26.72 (7.07) | 30.44 (8.95) | 35.25 (7.53) | 23.70 (5.97) | 28.82 (7.47) | n.s. |
Psychotropic medication | ||||||
n (%) | 16 (37%) | 22 (46%) | 17 (60%) | 5 (25%) | — | n.s. |
Hospitalization | ||||||
Outpatients n (%) | 26 (60%) | 17 (35%) | 8 (29%) | 9 (45%) | ||
Inpatients n (%) | 17 (40%) | 31 (65%) | 20 (71%) | 11 (55%) | ||
Current Axis I diagnoses n (%) | ||||||
Major depression | 9 (21%) | 15 (54%) | 10 (50%) | |||
Anxiety disorders | 27 (63%) | 19 (68%) | 10 (50%) | |||
Generalized anx. | 6 (14%) | 1 (4%) | 1 (5%) | |||
Social phobia | 16 (37%) | 12 (43%) | 8 (40%) | |||
Panic disorder | 14 (33%) | 10 (35%) | 2 (10%) | |||
Agora phobia | 3 (7%) | 0 (0%) | 2 (10%) | |||
Specific phobia | 8 (19%) | 4 (14%) | 4 (20%) | |||
PTSD | 22 (51%) | 28 (100%) | 3 (15%) | |||
Obs-Compulsive | 5 (11%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (5%) | |||
Eating disorders | 14 (33%) | 8 (29%) | 20 (100%) | |||
Anorexia | 0 (0%) | 1 (4%) | 0 (0%) | |||
Bulimia | 9 (21%) | 2 (7%) | 20 (100%) | |||
Binge eating | 5 (12%) | 5 (18%) | 0 (0%) | |||
Current Axis II disorders n (%) | ||||||
Borderline | 43 (100%) | exclusion criterion | ||||
Avoidant | 24 (25%) | 6 (21%) | 3 (15%) | |||
Obs-Compulsive | 7 (16%) | 3 (11%) | 2 (10%) | |||
Dependent | 7 (16%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (5%) | |||
Paranoid | 7 (16%) | 3 (11%) | 1 (5%) | |||
ALS total score: Sum scores | p < .001 (F-test) | |||||
M (SD) | 17.33 (3.11) | 12.49 (4.56) | 12.21 (5.10) | 12.90 (3.78) | 2.27 (2.33) | BPD > HC (p < .001, G-H) BPD > CC (p < .001, G-H) |
Note. n.s. = no significance; G-H = Games-Howell.