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Table 3 Frequency distributions of each BPD and dimensional criteria by gender and total sample

From: Borderline personality disorder and violence in the UK population: categorical and dimensional trait assessment

 

Females

 

Males

   

BPD DSM-IV Criteria

n

%

n

%

Fa

p

 1 Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment

1707

22.7

1356

18.7

26.9

<0.001

 2 Unstable and intense interpersonal relationships

1582

21.1

1379

19.1

7.0

0.008

 3 Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable

157

2.1

112

1.6

4.3

0.04

 4 Impulsivity in at least 2 areas

2871

38.2

2875

39.7

2.8

0.09

 5 Recurrent suicidal behaviour, gestures

218

2.9

173

2.4

2.5

0.11

 6 Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood

1291

17.2

859

11.9

61.8

<0.001

 7 Chronic feelings of emptiness

1378

18.3

999

13.8

44.9

<0.001

 8 Inappropriate, intense anger

587

7.8

580

8.0

0.2

0.69

 9 Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation

482

6.4

465

6.4

0.0

0.98

Dimensional traits of DSM-IV BPD

    

3.8

0.002

 1 Traits absent

3062

40.7

3102

42.9

  

 2 Clinically significant traits

3589

47.8

3459

47.8

  

 3 Sub-threshold traits

344

4.6

276

3.8

  

 4 Threshold of the disorder

250

3.3

167

2.3

  

 5 Pervasive disorder

259

3.4

216

3.0

  

 6 Prototypic disorder

12

0.2

17

0.2

  
  1. Note. Weighted percentages (column) and estimates (N = 14,753)
  2. aF distribution test of association for survey data (Stata Corp. svyset commands)