Table 2.
Relation between Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis II Disorders items and Duke University Religion Index subscales
| SCID –II items | DUREL subscales | Answer to SCID-II (SD)† |
P value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes Mean (SD) | No Mean (SD) | |||
| 1- Have you often become frantic when you thought that someone you really cared about was going to leave you? | ORA‡ | 2.74(1.55) | 2.82(1.66) | .58 |
| NORA | 4.11(2.21) | 4.10(2.23) | .98 | |
| IR | 13.78(3.08) | 13.69(3.38) | .76 | |
| 2- Do your relationships with people you really care about have lots of extreme ups and downs? | ORA | 2.62(1.54) | 2.89(1.64) | .09 |
| NORA | 3.78(2.24) | 4.31(2.18) | .01* | |
| IR | 13.45(3.14) | 13.91(3.29) | .15 | |
| 3- Have you all of a sudden changed you sense of who you are and where you are headed? | ORA | 2.58(1.50) | 2.88(1.65) | .71 |
| NORA | 3.80(2.26) | 4.24(2.19) | .05 | |
| IR | 13.40(3.14) | 13.89(3.28) | .14 | |
| 4- Does your sense of who you are often change dramatically? | ORA | 2.70(1.51) | 2.80(1.63) | .66 |
| NORA | 3.73(2.27) | 4.17(2.21) | .12 | |
| IR | 13.50(3.01) | 13.77(3.29) | .51 | |
| 5- Are you different with different people or in different situations, so that you sometimes don't know who you really are? | ORA | 2.74(1.72) | 2.79(1.58) | .80 |
| NORA | 3.73(2.29) | 4.20(2.19) | .07 | |
| IR | 12.85(3.31) | 13.96(3.19) | .004* | |
| 6- Have there been lots of sudden changes in your goals, career plans, religious beliefs, and so on? | ORA | 2.57(1.40) | 2.84(1.66) | .13 |
| NORA | 3.66(2.20) | 4.23(2.21) | .02* | |
| IR | 12.92(3.12) | 13.97(3.25) | .004* | |
| 7- Have you often done things impulsively? | ORA | 2.80(1.64) | 2.77(1.60) | .87 |
| NORA | 3.91(2.21) | 4.15(2.22) | .36 | |
| IR | 13.41(3.09) | 13.80(3.28) | .31 | |
| 8- Have you tried to hurt or kill yourself or threatened to do so? | ORA | 2.23(1.32) | 2.85(1.63) | .009* |
| NORA | 3.39(2.26) | 4.19(2.20) | .015* | |
| IR | 13.00(2.95) | 13.82(3.27) | .08 | |
| 9- Have you ever cut, burned, or scratched yourself on purpose? | ORA | 2.84(1.58) | 2.77(1.61) | .81 |
| NORA | 3.57(2.33) | 4.15(2.21) | .13 | |
| IR | 13.57(3.25) | 13.74(3.25) | .77 | |
| 10- Do you have a lot of mood changes? | ORA | 2.52(1.47) | 2.95(1.68) | .006* |
| NORA | 3.74(2.29) | 4.32(2.15) | .008* | |
| IR | 13.15(3.19) | 14.11(3.24) | .003* | |
| 11- Do you often feel empty inside? | ORA | 2.39(1.49) | 2.93(1.63) | .002* |
| NORA | 3.72(2.32) | 4.24(2.17) | .029* | |
| IR | 12.78(3.46) | 14.09(3.08) | .000* | |
| 12- Do you often have temper outbursts or get so angry that lose control? | ORA | 2.80(1.64) | 2.76(1.59) | .87 |
| NORA | 3.98(2.22) | 4.13(2.23) | .53 | |
| IR | 13.61(3.13) | 13.74(3.28) | .71 | |
| 13- Do you hit people or throw things when you get angry? | ORA | 3.11(1.81) | 2.76(1.59) | .28 |
| NORA | 3.80(2.26) | 4.12(2.22) | .48 | |
| IR | 13.80(2.07) | 13.72(3.31) | .89 | |
| 14- Do even little things get you very angry? | ORA | 2.58(1.54) | 2.93(1.64) | .02* |
| NORA | 3.80(2.25) | 4.33(2.18) | .01* | |
| IR | 13.16(3.21) | 14.15(3.21) | .002* | |
| 15- When you are under a lot of stress, do you get suspicious of other people or feel especially spaced out? | ORA | 2.79(1.57) | 2.77(1.65) | .87 |
| NORA | 4.09(2.18) | 4.11(2.28) | .92 | |
| IR | 13.88(2.85) | 13.53(2.65) | .26 | |
†
ORA indicates organizational religious activity; NORA non-organized religious activity; IR intrinsic religiosity.
‡
The table presents the results of analyses to assess relationship between religion and BPD scores. The t test has been used to compare the mean difference of different religiosity subscales of DUREL of two samples (Yes and No respondents).