Neuromagnetic Indication of Dysfunctional Emotion Regulation in Affective Disorders

Table 1

Demographic and clinical information for groups.

	Healthy control (HC, 𝑛=28)	Major depressive disorder (MDD, 𝑛=27)	Borderline personality disorder (BPD, 𝑛=15)	Group effects
Gender (m/f)	13/15	16/11	1/14	Patient-HC: n.s.
				MDD-BPD: Chi2(2) = 11.1**
Age (M ± SD)	31.0±12.5	40.8±12.7	26.1±6.4	Patients-HC: n.s.
				HC and BPD < MDD**; F(2,67) = 9.08**
Years of education	11.8±1.5	10.3±1.6	9.7±1.1	Patients-HC: t(68) = 4.52, 𝑃<.01
(M ± SD)				MDD-BPD n.s.
BDI (M ± SD)	3.3±3.0	21.4±12.3	29.4±15.5	Patients-HC: F(1,68) = 75.00**
				MDD-BPD: n.s.,; MDD and BPD > HC: F(2,67) = 39.15**
ERQr (M ± SD)	4.8±0.9	3.8±1.1	3.7±1.3	Patients-HC: F(1,68) = 13.74**
ERQs (M ± SD)	3.3±1.0	4.4±1.3	4.3±1.9	Patients-HC: F(1,68) = 10.97**; MDD-BPD: n.s.
Stress load (number of events)	14.4±12.5	36.1±26.7	48.7±25.0	BPD-MDD n.s.; BPD, MDD > HC**; F(2,67) = 13.85**

Note. BDI: Beck Depression Inventory II, German version [33]. ERQ: Emotion Regulation Questionnaire [38]; ERQr: subscale reappraisal subscale; ERQs: subscale suppression subscale. *𝑃<.05, **𝑃<.01, n.s. 𝑃<.1.