Table 1 Means, standard deviations, effect sizes and other statistics of demographic data, subjective memory complaints, and memory test performance in healthy controls, BPD patients, and BPD patients without axis I and II comorbidity (BPD NOCOM)
From: Subjective memory complaints and memory performance in patients with borderline personality disorder
Healthy | BPD | BPD | Statistics | Statistics | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Controls | Patients | NOCOM | HC vs BPD | HC vs BPD NOCOM | |
(n = 32) | (n = 32) | (n = 7) | |||
Demographic data | |||||
Age | 27.2 (10.9) | 27.3 (8.8) | 30.6 (10.1) | t = 0.1, ns (d = 0) | t = 0.7, ns (d = 0.3) |
Basic School Education (years) | 11.4 (1.3) | 11.3 (1.4) | 11.6 (1.5) | t = 0.3, ns (d = 0.1) | t = 0.2, ns (d = 0.1) |
Sex (f/m) | 22/10 | 21/11 | 3/4 | Chi2 = 0.1, ns (d = 0) | Chi2 = 1.7, ns (d = 0.4) |
SMC | |||||
EMQ | 50 (13.5) | 99 (37.5) | 68 (19.2) | t = 7.0*** (d = 1.9) | t = 3.0** (d = 1.1) |
Memory tests | |||||
Logical Memory I | 31 (7.7) | 31 (7.0) | 29 (4.5) | F = 0.2, ns (d = 0) | F = 0.5, ns (d = 0.3) |
Logical Memory II | 27 (8.0) | 27 (8.1) | 26 (6.0) | F = 0.0, ns (d = 0) | F = 0.1, ns (d = 0.1) |
AVLT (round 1-3) | 32 (4.6) | 31 (5.2) | 33 (6.8) | F = 2.2, ns (d = 0.2) | F = 0.2, ns (d = 0.2) |
CFT (late recall) | 21 (6.7) | 19 (5.8) | 21 (4.6) | F = 1.2, ns (d = 0.3) | F = 0.0, ns (d = 0) |
RVDLT (round 1-3) | 26 (7.1) | 25 (7.3) | 25 (7.2) | F = 0.3, ns (d = 0.1) | F = 0.0, ns (d = 0.1) |