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 | ||||
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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 | Â |
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 |