Subjective memory complaints and memory performance in patients with borderline personality disorder

BMC Psychiatry

Table 2 Correlations between subjective memory complaints as assessed by the Everyday Memory Questionnaire (EMQ), Borderline Symptom List (BSL), comorbidity (COM), and memory test performance in patients with Borderline Personality Disorder (n = 32, numbers above the diagonal) and healthy participants (n = 32, numbers below the diagonal)

	EMQ	BSL	COM	AVLT	Log I	Log II	RVDLT	CFT
EMQ	-	0.54**	0.47*	-0.08	-0.02	-0.03	-0.18	0.01
BSL	0.41*	-	.55**	-0.19	0.13	0.04	-0.06	-0.01
COM	-	-	--	-0.21	0.10	0.08	0.00	-0.14
AVLT	0.14	0.08	-	-	0.40*	0.28	0.48**	0.39*
Log I	0.20	0.10	-	0.33	-	0.92***	0.57**	0.09
Log II	0.16	0.03	-	0.26	0.94***	-	0.49**	0.10
RVDLT	0.44*¹	0.34	-	0.26	0.20	0.11	-	0.28
CFT	0.25	0.17	-	0.56**	0.13	0.10	0.53**	-

EMQ = Everyday Memory Questionnaire, BSL = Borderline Symptom List, AVLT = Auditory Verbal Learning Test, Log I = Logical memory immediate recall, Log II = Logical memory delayed recall, RVDLT = Rey Visual Design Learning Test, CFT = Complex Figure Test.
***p < .001, **p < .01, *p < .05, ¹This correlation failed the adjusted level of significance (alpha = 0.01).

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