The biosocial correlates and predictors of emotion dysregulation in autistic adults compared to borderline personality disorder and nonclinical controls

Bemmouna, Doha; Lagzouli, Amine; Weiner, Luisa

doi:10.1186/s13229-023-00580-3

Molecular Autism

Table 5 Scales mean scores pairwise comparisons between the groups using the Kruskal–Wallis one-way test

From: The biosocial correlates and predictors of emotion dysregulation in autistic adults compared to borderline personality disorder and nonclinical controls

	ASC n = 154		BPD n = 111		NC n = 459		ASC versus BPD			ASC versus NC			BPD versus NC
	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	W	p value	ε²	W	p value	ε²	W	p value	ε²
DERS-16	49.86	15.05	65.87	11.7	42.15	16.45	11.75	< 0.001^***	0.2617^a	7.35	< 0.001^***	0.0442	17.03	< 0.001^***	0.2549^a
Clarity	6.31	2.24	7.41	2.01	4.94	2.31	5.56	0.005^**	0.0586	9.10	< 0.001^***	0.0676	13.29	< 0.001^***	0.1551^a
Impulse	7.24	3.51	11.84	3.23	6.17	3.58	12.84	< 0.001^***	0.3120^a	5.70	< 0.001^***	0.0265	17.25	< 0.001^***	0.2616^a
Non-acceptance	8.36	3.86	11.76	3.33	7.51	3.82	9.72	< 0.001^***	0.1789^a	3.48	0.037^*	0.0099	13.69	< 0.001^***	0.1647^a
Goals	11.82	3.08	13.21	2.16	10.15	3.64	5.23	< 0.001^***	0.0519	7.10	< 0.001^***	0.0412	11.70	< 0.001^***	0.1203
Strategies	16.14	5.91	21.66	3.84	13.38	6.05	11.00	< 0.001^***	0.2290^a	6.86	0.002^**	0.0384	16.75	< 0.001^***	0.2466^a
AQ-Short	21.1	3.6	15.41	4.84	12.79	5.66	− 12.68	< 0.001^***	0.3044^a	20.26	< 0.001^***	0.3355^a	6.20	< 0.001^***	0.0338
BSL-23	30.91	21.1	60.55	19.09	24.21	21.51	13.48	< 0.001^***	0.3443^a	5.48	< 0.001^***	0.0279	17.72	< 0.001^***	0.2761^a
ASRS v1.1 Screener	15.1	5.59	15.95	4.69	12.66	4.96	1.43	0.568	0.0039	7.14	< 0.001^***	0.0416	8.70	< 0.001^***	0.0666
DASS-21	56.16	28.56	82.77	23.54	43.16	29.04	10.36	< 0.001^***	0.2034^a	6.87	< 0.001^***	0.0386	15.99	< 0.001^***	0.2246^a
Stress	21.99	10.13	30.83	7.63	17.38	10.63	9.96	< 0.001^***	0.1878^a	6.64	< 0.001^***	0.0361	15.61	< 0.001^***	0.2140^a
Anxiety	14.73	10.18	23.62	9.99	11.58	9.93	9.45	< 0.001^***	0.1690^a	5.21	< 0.001^***	0.0222	13.99	< 0.001^***	0.1719^a
Depression	19.44	12.8	28.32	10.13	14.2	11.69	7.86	< 0.001^***	0.1169	6.37	< 0.001^***	0.0332	14.41	< 0.001^***	0.1824^a
EV-Child self-report	92.28	20.09	101.42	19.45	74.62	24.1	5.41	< 0.001^***	0.0555	11.29	< 0.001^***	0.1042	14.11	< 0.001^***	0.1749^a
CAT-Q	100.75	11.86	94.59	13.99	87.87	14.59	− 5.35	< 0.001^***	0.0542	13.44	< 0.001^***	0.1476^a	5.86	< 0.001^***	0.0302
Compensation	44.08	7.72	39.61	9.67	34.24	10.54	− 5.49	< 0.001^***	0.0571	14.41	< 0.001^***	0.1696^a	6.51	< 0.001^***	0.0373
Masking	23.09	3.75	21.27	4.46	20.79	3.84	− 5.25	< 0.001^***	0.0522	9.15	< 0.001^***	0.0684	1.51	0.536	0.0020
Assimilation	33.58	4.55	33.7	4.34	32.84	4.47	− 2.48	0.983	0.0001	2.91	0.098	0.0069	2.51	0.177	0.0056
SPSQ SS subscale	56.36	10.13	54.65	9.71	49.24	9.17	− 2.38	0.211	0.0108	11.43	< 0.001^***	0.1051	7.31	< 0.001^***	0.0470
GAFS-8	29.38	7.99	29.5	7.29	23.24	9.21	− 0.45	0.946	0.0004	10.18	< 0.001^***	0.0846	9.05	< 0.001^***	0.0720
CTQ-SF	48.49	16.01	57.77	17.88	40.12	12.87	5.99	< 0.001^***	0.0679	8.41	< 0.001^***	0.0577	13.78	< 0.001^***	0.1669^a
Emotional abuse	12.57	5.46	15.35	5.5	9.59	4.75	5.59	< 0.001^***	0.0593	8.93	< 0.001^***	0.0651	13.49	< 0.001^***	0.1600^a
Physical abuse	6.72	3.34	8.35	5.08	6.04	2.54	4.00	0.013^*	0.0303	3.41	0.042^*	0.0095	7.91	< 0.001^***	0.0550
Sexual abuse	7.37	4.35	9.61	6.23	6.29	3.5	3.78	0.021^*	0.0270	6.21	< 0.001^***	0.0315	9.73	< 0.001^***	0.0833
Emotional neglect	13.73	4.99	15.27	4.79	11.27	4.69	3.14	0.068	0.0187	7.58	< 0.001^***	0.0469	10.40	< 0.001^***	0.0951
Physical neglect	8.09	3.21	9.19	3.62	6.94	2.49	3.73	0.023^*	0.0264	5.94	< 0.001^***	0.0288	9.57	< 0.001^***	0.0804
ABE	43.75	22.4	43.87	25.05	24.81	18.1	− 0.21	0.988	0.0000	12.93	< 0.001^***	0.1365	10.47	< 0.001^***	0.0964

*p < 0.05, ^**p < 0.01, ^***p < 0.001
^aLarge effect size

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