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Table 2 The associations of the level of personality disturbance with the continuous variables

From: Clinical importance of personality difficulties: diagnostically sub-threshold personality disorders

 

No personality disturbance (I)

Personality difficulty (II)

Simple personality disorder (III)

Complex/severe personality disorder (IV)

 

Post hoc testc

Variable

N

Mean (SD) or Median [IQR]

N

Mean (SD) or Median [IQR]

N

Mean (SD) or Median [IQR]

N

Mean (SD) or Median [IQR]

P

 

Age

135

40.95 (11.79)

51

40.18 (10.80)

80

38.60 (12.59)

86

40.24 (12.44)

0.59a

None

MHI-5

133

57.89 (21.91)

49

41.88 (21.53)

71

44.17 (19.81)

77

37.82 (19.73)

<0.001a

I vs. II, I vs. III, I vs. IV

15D

129

0.81 (0.10)

49

0.76 (0.10)

78

0.76 (0.11)

80

0.72 (0.12)

<0.001a

I vs. II, I vs. III, I vs. IV, III vs. IV

BDI

135

16.72 (8.85)

51

22.38 (8.28)

80

22.56 (9.06)

85

26.06 (9.23)

<0.001a

I vs. II, I vs. III, I vs. IV, III vs. IV

AUDIT

135

3.00 [5.00]

51

4.00 [7.00]

80

3.00 [5.50]

86

5.00 [7.00]

0.010b

I vs. IV

Number of Axis I diagnoses

135

1.00 [1.00]

51

2.00 [2.00]

80

2.00 [2.00]

86

3.00 [1.00]

<0.001b

I vs. II, I vs. III, I vs. IV, III vs. IV

  1. SD Standard deviation, IQR Interquartile range, MHI-5 Five-item Mental Health Index, BDI Beck Depression Inventory, AUDIT Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test
  2. aOne-way ANOVA
  3. bKruskall-Wallis test
  4. cSignificant differences (p < 0.05) in pair-wise post hoc tests. Tukey’s method for Age, MHI-5, 15D, and BDI; Dwass, Steel, Critchlow-Flinger method for AUDIT and Number of Axis I disorders