Table 4.
MANCOVA analysis of BPD versus clinical comparison subjects as a function of attachment, mentalizing, borderline features, emotional dysregulation, externalizing and internalizing pathology, depression and risk taking and self-harm after controlling for sociodemographic variables
| MANOCOVA Test: Multivariate test | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Effect | Pillai’s trace V | F | df | p |
| Intercept | 0.68 | 23.41 | 8 | 0.001 |
| Age | 0.08 | 1.04 | 8 | 0.41 |
| Gender | 0.05 | 0.58 | 8 | 0.80 |
| Educational Level | 0.11 | 1.52 | 8 | 0.16 |
| Living status | 0.10 | 1.31 | 8 | 0.25 |
| Grouping variable (BPD vs. clinical comparisons) | 0.80 | 48.14 | 8 | 0.001 |