Table 5.
Descriptive statistics of psychiatric and nonpsychiatric subjects
| N | Men
|
DES-total score
|
DES ≥30 (%) | DES_C
|
DES_D
|
DES_ABS
|
DES-T>15 (%) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | (%) | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | ||||
| General populationa | 2303 | 1793 | (77.9) | 14.63 | 11.78 | 10.9 | 6.59 | 9.03 | 7.46 | 12.40 | 20.34 | 14.77 | 17.5 |
| Dermatological patients | 491 | 136 | (27.7) | 11.39 | 10.05 | 6.11 | 5.05 | 7.29 | 4.67 | 8.50 | 16.29 | 13.48 | 10.8 |
| Caregivers of cancer patients | 145 | 57 | (39.31) | 8.33 | 7.31 | 2.07 | 4.09 | 6.16 | 2.55 | 5.47 | 12.09 | 10.01 | 5.5 |
| Gynecological patients | 145 | 0 | (0) | 13.69 | 12.46 | 8.28 | 7.40 | 11.91 | 8.85 | 16.18 | 17.86 | 13.18 | 19.3 |
| Workers | 42 | 13 | (30.95) | 6.93 | 4.21 | 0.00 | 3.46 | 3.48 | 1.45 | 1.99 | 10.29 | 6.92 | 0.0 |
| Cancer patients | 122 | 36 | (29.51) | 10.25 | 11.49 | 4.10 | 5.33 | 10.77 | 4.40 | 11.63 | 14.29 | 13.04 | 8.2 |
| Students | 1358 | 268 | (20.47) | 17.21 | 12.08 | 17.77 | 7.53 | 9.29 | 9.30 | 13.44 | 23.81 | 15.05 | 22.3 |
| Psychiatric patientsa | 780 | 558 | (71.5) | 20.02 | 16.29 | 25.0 | 11.02 | 14.26 | 17.48 | 19.78 | 24.35 | 18.16 | 37.4 |
| Anxiety disordersb | 46 | 17 | (36.96) | 9.5 | 6.99 | 4.35 | 3.37 | 3.86 | 4.80 | 5.81 | 13.56 | 10.36 | 2.2 |
| Affective disordersb,c | 205 | 51 | (24.88) | 14.64 | 13.43 | 10.24 | 8.22 | 13.23 | 12.21 | 15.91 | 17.96 | 14.48 | 22.9 |
| Bipolar disordersb | 139 | 59 | (42.45) | 18.67 | 14.52 | 18.71 | 11.01 | 13.73 | 14.51 | 16.48 | 23.12 | 16.46 | 33.8 |
| Psychosisb | 56 | 26 | (46.43) | 16.65 | 17.30 | 17.86 | 10.97 | 16.34 | 15.30 | 19.39 | 19.28 | 18.59 | 26.8 |
| Somatoform disordersb | 32 | 1 | (3.13) | 21.45 | 12.59 | 31.25 | 11.09 | 10.01 | 16.25 | 17.58 | 27.29 | 14.54 | 43.8 |
| Personality disordersd,e | 119 | 36 | (30.25) | 20.98 | 15.77 | 26.05 | 10.55 | 13.19 | 18.94 | 20.12 | 25.66 | 17.42 | 40.3 |
| BPDe | 153 | 29 | (18.95) | 29.60 | 18.86 | 46.41 | 15.93 | 16.84 | 27.63 | 22.99 | 35.47 | 21.04 | 62.1 |
| Dissociative disordersb | 30 | 3 | (1.35) | 31.89 | 12.02 | 60.00 | 19.17 | 13.30 | 34.58 | 24.43 | 35.65 | 13.59 | 80.0 |
Notes:
Compared with nonpsychiatric subjects, psychiatric patients reported higher scores in compartmentalization, detachment, and absorption dissociative experiences.
Compared with patients with other Axis I disorders, patients with dissociative disorders reported higher compartmentalization, detachment, and absorption dissociative experiences.
Excluding bipolar disorders.
Excluding BPD.
Compared with patients with other personality disorders, patients with BDP reported higher compartmentalization, detachment, and absorption dissociative experiences.
Abbreviations: BPD, borderline personality disorder; DES, Dissociative Experiences Scale; DES_ABS, DES absorption score; DES_C, DES-compartmentalization score; DES_D, DES-detachment score; DES-T, DES-Taxon.