Females | Males | |||||
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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 |