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Published in final edited form as: Am J Psychiatry. 2010 Feb 16;167(5):528–535. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2009.09071023

Table 1.

Comparison of symptomatic, functional, and personality stability of in patients with personality disorder, major depression, or both.

	Personality Disorder, no Major Depressive Disorder			Major Depressive Episode, comorbid Personality Disorder			Major Depressive Episode, no Personality Disorder			Significance test
	Mean	SD	Correlation Between Time Points (r)	Mean	SD	Correlation Between Time Points (r)	Mean	SD	Correlation Between Time Points (r)	F statistic	Df	p
Number of Personality Disorder Symptoms
Baseline	29.03^a	15.53	.50^a	31.39^a	12.77	.46^a	7.26^b	4.98	.32^b	103.97	2,430	< .001
Year 6	12.77^a	11.95		15.45^a	12.97		5.56^b	6.68		19.54	2,430	< .001
GAF Score
Baseline	58.68^a	12.57	.33	54.88^b	9.57	.35	60.88^a	10.06	.39	11.28	2,430	< .001
Year 6	58.10^a	13.44		57.49^a	13.80		68.23^b	12.77		18.48	2,430	< .001
Absolute Value, Change	11.74	9.12		10.93	8.85		11.93	8.31		0.53	2,430	n.s.
NEO Neuroticism t-score
Baseline	69.92^a	11.90	.62	72.94^a	10.52	.55	61.39^b	12.58	.55	26.77	2,391	< .001
Year 6	60.66^a	15.28		64.44^a	10.90		52.62^b	14.61		17.66	2,329	< .001
Absolute value, Change	12.07	9.65		10.30	8.13		12.16	9.76		1.57	2,327	n.s.
NEO Extroversion t-score
Baseline	43.91^a	12.44	.67	37.91^b	12.17	.67	46.78^a	10.58	.65	18.02	2,384	< .001
Year 6	44.28^a	11.35		40.43^b	12.33		47.52^a	10.50		17.66	2,329	< .001
Absolute value, Change	7.51	6.31		7.80	6.71		6.89	5.65		0.39	2,302	n.s.
NEO Openness t-score
Baseline	58.47^a	10.82	.74	53.24^b	12.77	.78	55.52^a,b	12.66	.78	6.89	2,392	< .001
Year 6	55.71^a	11.28		51.42^b	12.49		54.96^a,b	11.64		4.69	2,331	< .01
Absolute value, Change	6.51	4.72		6.81	5.23		6.51	4.64		0.11	2,306	n.s.
NEO Agreeableness t-score
Baseline	42.56^a	11.79	.72	43.76^a	12.91	.71	48.47^b	10.47	.63	4.89	2,378	< .008
Year 6	45.95	11.98		46.84	12.31		49.68	14.34		1.60	2,330	n.s.
Absolute value, Change	7.62	5.84		7.05	7.11		7.73	7.42		0.30	2,296	n.s.
NEO Conscientiousness t-score
Baseline	38.92	14.01	.69	37.01	15.17	.62	37.23	14.07	.70	0.65	2,381	n.s.
Year 6	41.79	14.93		39.74	12.23		42.67	15.58		1.29	2,327	n.s.
Absolute value, Change	9.29	7.71		9.77	8.27		10.35	7.23		0.28	2,291	n.s.
PAI Depression t-scores, Year 6
Cognitive	57.37^a	15.46		63.62^b	16.94		55.14^a	17.15		8.71	2,367	< .001
Affective	59.12^a	15.92		66.53^b	17.35		56.32^a	15.96		12.27	2,367	< .001
Physiological	57.28^a	11.72		62.70^b	12.31		54.25^a	12.45		14.52	2,367	< .001
Total score	59.46^a	14.81		66.96^b	16.03		56.26^a	16.21		14.81	2,367	< .001

Means or correlations with differing superscript were significantly different in Bonferroni post-hoc test, p < .05.