Clinical Study
Neuromagnetic Indication of Dysfunctional Emotion Regulation in Affective Disorders
Table 1
Demographic and clinical information for groups.
| | Healthy control (HC, ) | Major depressive disorder (MDD, ) | Borderline personality disorder (BPD, ) | Group effects |
| Gender (m/f) | 13/15 | 16/11 | 1/14 | Patient-HC: n.s. | | | | | MDD-BPD: Chi2(2) = 11.1** |
| Age (M ± SD) | | | | Patients-HC: n.s. | | | | | HC and BPD < MDD** F(2,67) = 9.08** |
| Years of education | | | | Patients-HC: t(68) = 4.52, | (M ± SD) | | | | MDD-BPD n.s. |
| BDI (M ± SD) | | | | Patients-HC: F(1,68) = 75.00** | | | | | MDD-BPD: n.s., MDD and BPD > HC: F(2,67) = 39.15** |
| ERQr (M ± SD) | | | | Patients-HC: F(1,68) = 13.74** | ERQs (M ± SD) | | | | Patients-HC: F(1,68) = 10.97** MDD-BPD: n.s. |
| Stress load (number of events) | | | | BPD-MDD n.s. BPD, MDD > HC** F(2,67) = 13.85** | | | | |
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Note. BDI: Beck Depression Inventory II, German version [33]. ERQ: Emotion Regulation Questionnaire [38]; ERQr: subscale reappraisal subscale; ERQs: subscale suppression subscale. *, **, n.s. .
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