Table 4. Pearson correlation between alterations in self-referential processing in the valence judgment task and attributional style in healthy control participants (HC) and patients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).

	HC (n = 30)				BPD (n = 30)
	positive words: other-self reference		neutral words: other—self reference		positive words: other-self reference		neutral words: other—self reference		Group differences in correlations (BPD-HC, two-tailed)
									positive words		neutral words
	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p	Z	p	Z	p
BDI– total score	0.12	.526	0.11	.549	−0.01	.947	−0.04	.847	−0.50	.621	−0.56	.578
BSL-23— mean score	0.02	.911	0.16	.405	0.28	.128	0.23	.231	1.00	.319	0.26	.798
ASF-E
negative events
− internality a	−0.02	.900	−0.16	.427	0.40	.040	0.49	.009	1.56	.120	2.45	.014
− stability b	−0.38	.050	−0.34	.080	0.40	.039	0.51	.006	2.85	.004	3.21	.001
− globality a	−0.14	.479	−0.09	.659	0.48	.011	0.56	.002	2.34	.019	2.53	.011
positive events
− internality b	0.24	.234	−0.11	.600	−0.35	.070	−0.32	.100	−2.09	.036	−0.77	.441
− stability b	−0.04	.856	−0.22	.282	0.02	.914	0.18	.378	0.20	.842	1.38	.168
− globality b	−0.21	.291	−0.26	.187	−0.57	.002	−0.47	.011	−1.48	.139	−0.85	.395

Note: ASF-E = Attributional Style Questionnaire for Adults; BDI = Beck Depression Inventory; BPD = borderline personality disorder; BSL-23 = Borderline Symptom List-23; HC = healthy control participants;

^a missing data of 3 HC and 2 BPD, ^b missing data of 3 HC and 3 BPD