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Table 3 Means (Standard Deviations) for Adult Attachment Scores, Attachment Fears, and Affect Dysregulation by Diagnostic Group with post-hoc comparisons

From: Adult attachment and emotion dysregulation in borderline personality and somatoform disorders

Group

N

Secure

Fearful

Dismissive

Preoccupied

Fear of Abandonment

Fear of Closeness

Under-regulation of affect

Over-regulation of affect

BPD

 

119

2.36a

3.84c

3.56c

3.22c

3.20c

3.51c

8.29c

77.06c

 

(.63)

(.78)

(.70)

(.85)

(.68)

(.81)

(1.84)

(17.89)

SoD

 

159

2.65b

3.23a

3.59c

2.74b

2.56a

3.04a

6.64b

72.63b

 

(.63)

(.90)

(.67)

(.78)

(.73)

(.79)

(2.02)

(17.54)

BPD + SoD

 

129

2.29a

4.00c

3.73c

3.12c

3.10c

3.58c

8.44c

79.26c

 

(.61)

(.66)

(.62)

(.87)

(.71)

(.72)

(1.83)

(17.90)

PC

 

62

3.10c

3.41b

3.19b

2.74b

2.68b

3.26b

7.19b

70.70b

 

(.81)

(.78)

(.77)

(.67)

(.61)

(.80)

(2.30)

(19.55)

  1. Note: BPD, borderline personality disorder; SoD, somatoform disorder; BPD + SoD, borderline personality disorder and somatoform disorder; PC, psychiatric comparison group. Groups with different superscripts differed p < .05 on post hoc comparisons with PC as reference group.