Table 2.
Pleasant touch perception in participants with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and healthy controls (HC)
| BPD (n = 25) |
HC (n = 25) |
Statistics | |
|---|---|---|---|
| M (SD) | M (SD) | ||
| Mdn (IQR) | Mdn (IQR) | ||
| Valence | −4.50 (41.56) | 56.85 (39.78) | t(48) = −5.33, p < .001 |
| −17.58 (59.29) | 65.83 (53.54) | ||
| Intensity | 54.58 (17.30) | 74.64 (19.15) | U = 126.00, z = −3.62, p < .001 |
| 55.67 (20.87) | 74.67 (30.21) | ||
| Sensory components | |||
| Roughness | 27.80 (16.53) | 13.49 (11.33) | U = 128.00, z = −3.58, pBonf = .002 |
| 22.31 (31.72) | 9.50 (13.63) | ||
| Slip | 14.08 (16.03) | 7.22 (9.83) | U = 216.00, z = −1.89, pBonf = .349 |
| 6.08 (21.83) | 1.67 (13.00) | ||
| Firmness | 23.44 (14.57) | 9.15 (11.93) | U = 121.50, z = −3.71, pBonf = .001 |
| 24.70 (22.00) | 5.90 (11.30) | ||
| Pile | 47.13 (19.83) | 57.37 (25.79) | U = 215.00, z = −1.89, pBonf = .354 |
| 43.33 (24.33) | 62.00 (38.42) | ||
| Affective components | |||
| Comfort | 36.81 (19.88) | 64.22 (19.88) | t(48) = −4.87, pBonf < .001 |
| 37.78 (30.89) | 67.33 (22.69) | ||
| Arousal | 22.72 (16.99) | 35.45 (20.19) | t(48) = −2.41, pBonf = .119 |
| 19.25 (31.25) | 38.19 (27.56) | ||
BPD = borderline personality disorder; HC = healthy control; n = number; M = mean; SD = standard deviation; Mdn = median; IQR = interquartile range; pBonf = Bonferroni corrected p-value