Borderline personality symptoms and work performance: a population-based survey

BMC Psychiatry

Table 4 Borderline personality symptoms among workers (N = 3672) and number of adverse working conditions as correlates of impaired work performance

Work loss days	0 days	0.1–5 days			> 5.1 days
Work loss days		Model 1 Adj. RRR [95% CI]	Model 2 Adj. RRR [95% CI]	Model 3 Adj. RRR [95% CI]	Model 1 Adj. RRR [95% CI]	Model 2 Adj. RRR [95% CI]	Model 3 Adj. RRR [95% CI]
Borderline personality symptoms (0–6)	Ref	1.25 [1.13–1.38]	1.20 [1.08–1.34]	1.17 [1.04–1.31]	1.36 [1.22–1.51]	1.21 [1.07–1.37]	1.19 [1.04–1.35]
Number of adverse working conditions
0 (optimal)
	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref
1	Ref	1.26 [0.95–1.68]	1.21 [0.89–1.63]	1.20 [0.88–1.63]	1.29 [0.99–1.70]	1.23 [0.93–1.63]	1.22 [0.92–1.63]
2	Ref	1.41 [0.97–2.04]	1.43 [0.97–2.11]	1.39 [0.94–2.05]	1.69 [1.16–2.46]	1.54 [1.07–2.23]	1.49 [1.04–2.15]
3 or more	Ref	2.68 [1.55–4.65]	2.49 [1.48–4.18]	2.38 [1.41–4.01]	2.64 [1.64–4.26]	2.21 [1.36–3.60]	2.11 [1.30–3.43]

Adj Adjusted, CI Confidence interval, RRR Relative Risk Ratios
Ref: Reference category (0 days of work loss) in the multinomial analyses and in the row (0 adverse working conditions)
Model 1: adjusted for demographic variables sex and age,
Model 2: adjusted for sex, age, living situation, education and any 12-month mood disorder, any 12-month anxiety disorder and any 12-month substance use disorder,
Model 3: adjusted for model 2 as well as all variables in the column (borderline personality symptoms and the four working conditions).
Significant associations highlighted in bold

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