Table 2.

Study 2 means across participants with and without BPD and MDD diagnoses.

					Test Statistic F (η_p²)

	Low BPD/Low MDD (N = 71)	Low BPD/High MDD (N = 30)	High BPD/Low MDD (N = 24)	High BPD/High MDD (N = 51)	Group	Time	Group X Time
Subjective Emotional Reactivity
NA					8.95^*** (.14)	39.10^*** (.19)	2.15^* (.04)
Pre-NA	18.27 (23.01)^a	23.23 (17.25)^a	28.54 (30.89)^a	28.87 (20.95)^a
Peak-NA	29.07 (25.71)^a	49.05 (25.26)^b	45.03 (34.00)^a,b	51.81 (28.06)^b
Post-NA	35.81 (25.04)^a	51.89 (40.45)^a,b	58.17 (35.00)^b	60.52 (24.46)^b
Anxiety
Pre-Anxiety	22.46 (27.09)^a	28.04 (23.93)^a	25.58 (28.27)^a	32.91 (25.87)^a
Peak-Anxiety	26.70 (28.14)^a	48.36 (28.79)^b	35.67 (35.21)^a,b	45.49 (29.54)^b
Post-Anxiety	35.58 (28.51)^a	46.46 (30.25)^a,b	57.79 (34.57)^b	57.09 (28.22)^b
Anger
Pre-Anger	16.17 (24.05)^a	20.82 (17.97)^a	30.02 (33.73)^a	26.85 (22.36)^a
Peak-Anger	30.26 (27.50)^a	49.39 (30.89)^b	49.71 (37.15)^a,b	54.97 (31.80)^b
Post-Anger	36.07 (27.67)^a	54.61 (51.38)^a,b	58.35 (39.22)^a,b	62.24 (26.64)^b

Biological Emotional Reactivity					1.02 (.02)	3.62^* (.03)	0.65 (.02)

Pre-Cortisol	0.22 (0.20)^a	0.19 (0.12)^a	0.25 (0.18)^a	0.21 (0.10)^a
Peak-Cortisol	0.21 (0.20)^a	0.20 (0.13)^a	0.25 (0.19)^a	0.18 (0.09)^a
Post-Cortisol	0.16 (0.10)^a	0.16 (0.09)^a	0.21 (0.14)^a	0.16 (0.09)^a

Behavioral Emotion Regulation
PASAT-C quit	187.00 (187.42)^a	141.00 (169.20)^a	94.46 (151.58)^a	184.78 (184.64)^a	1.58 (.03)	--	--

Subjective Emotion Regulation
Total	72.77 (20.21)^a	80.18 (24.78)^a	97.09 (23.07)^b	101.42 (23.94)^b	16.65^*** (.24)	--	--
Awareness	15.77 (5.39)^a	16.69 (6.90)^a	16.91 (6.16)^a	18.40 (5.12)^a	1.43 (.03)	--	--
Acceptance	11.28 (5.45)^a	11.83 (5.00)^a,b	15.87 (6.96)^b	14.79 (6.52)^b	5.33^** (.09)	--	--
Clarity	9.94 (4.07)^a	10.21 (3.90)^a	12.52 (4.21)^a,b	13.15 (4.24)^b	6.33^*** (.11)	--	--
Goals	11.47 (4.07)^a	13.27 (5.09)^a	14.39 (5.29)^a,b	16.30 (4.55)^b	10.13^*** (.16)	--	--
Strategies	13.57 (5.46)^a	16.59 (7.27)^a	21.48 (7.25)^b	21.39 (7.30)^b	15.97^*** (.23)	--	--
Impulse	10.76 (4.72)^a	11.66 (5.59)^a	15.91 (6.51)^b	17.43 (5.43)^b	17.72^*** (.16)	--	--

Note. Untransformed means presented. Different superscripts denote significant differences between groups based on Bonferonni-corrected pairwise comparisons. BPD = borderline personality disorder. DERS = difficulties in emotion regulation scale. MDD = major depressive disorder. NA = negative affect. PASAT-C = paced auditory serial addition task – computerized version.

p < .05.

^**

p < .01.

^***

p < .001.