Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation

Table 4 Regressions of diagnosis, BPD severity, depression severity, sex, and age on reduced and no ToM errors

From: Psychopathology and Theory of Mind in patients with personality disorders

	reduced ToM			no ToM
Predictors	β	B	CI 95%	β	B	CI 95%
Regression 1 (enter)
Sex (0 = female, 1 = male)	-0.06	-0.38	[-1.42, 0.67]	-0.10	-0.52	[-1.30, 0.26]
Age in years	0.23	0.07	[0.02, 0.11]	0.18	0.04	[0.01, 0.07]
BPD severity	-0.01	-0.01	[-0.17, 0.16]	0.01	0.01	[-0.11, 0.14]
BPD vs. MOPD diagnosis	-0.10	-0.62	[-1.57, 0.33]	-0.08	-0.37	[-1.08, 0.34]
Regression 2 (enter)
Sex (0 = female, 1 = male)	-0.07	-0.46	[-1.50, 0.58]	-0.11	-0.61	[-1.44, 0.22]
Age in years	0.22	0.06	[0.02, 0.10]	0.16	0.04	[0.00, 0.07]
Depression severity	0.03	0.02	[-0.05, 0.09]	0.03	0.01	[-0.04, 0.07]
BPD vs. MOPD diagnosis	-0.11	-0.64	[-1.57, 0.30]	-0.06	-0.29	[-1.04, 0.45]
Regression 3 (enter)
Sex (0 = female, 1 = male)	-0.06	-0.38	[-1.43, 0.66]	-0.10	-0.52	[-1.31, 0.26]
Age in years	0.22	0.06	[0.02, 0.11]	0.18	0.04	[0.005, 0.07]
BPD severity	-0.03	-0.04	[-0.22, 0.15]	-0.01	-0.01	[-0.15, 0.13]
Depression severity	0.06	0.03	[-0.05, 0.11]	0.06	0.02	[-0.04, 0.08]
BPD vs. MOPD diagnosis	-0.11	-0.64	[-1.59, 0.31]	-0.09	-0.38	[-1.09, 0.33]
Regression 4 (stepwise)
Age in years	0.25	0.07	[0.03, 0.11]	0.18	0.04	[0.01, 0.06]

Note. BPD borderline personality disorder, MOPD mixed and other personality disorders, ToM Theory of Mind, CI 95% 95% confidence interval; bold numbers are significant on a p = .05 level

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