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 6 Scales mean scores pairwise comparisons between ASC women, ASC men and BPD 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 women n = 89		ASC men n = 46		BPD n = 111		ASC women versus ASD Men			ASC women versus BPD			ASC Men versus BPD
	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	W	p value	ε²	W	p value	ε²	W	p value	ε²
DERS-16	50.98	14.5	46.26	16.39	65.87	11.7	− 2.26	0.248	0.0189	9.93	< 0.001^***	0.2477^a	− 9.24	< 0.001^***	0.2735^a
Clarity	6.43	2.1	6.04	2.37	7.41	2.01	− 1.41	0.581	0.0074	4.63	0.003^**	0.0539	− 4.66	0.003^**	0.0695
Impulse	7.4	3.37	7.09	3.88	11.84	3.23	− 1.26	0.646	0.0059	11.19	< 0.001^***	0.3149^a	− 9.05	< 0.001^***	0.2623^a
Non-acceptance	8.67	3.67	7.26	3.9	11.76	3.33	− 3.14	0.068^a	0.0368	8.14	< 0.001^***	0.1663^a	− 8.52	< 0.001^***	0.2328^a
Goals	12.07	2.91	10.93	3.5	13.21	2.16	− 2.68	0.14	0.0268	3.84	0.018*	0.0370	− 5.91	< 0.001^***	0.1120
Strategies	16.4	5.85	14.93	6.08	21.66	3.84	− 1.76	0.428	0.0115	9.25	< 0.001^***	0.2151^a	− 9.07	< 0.001^***	0.2638^a
AQ-Short	21.17	3.56	21.00	3.79	15.41	4.84	− 0.51	0.931	0.0005	− 11.28	< 0.001^***	0.3165^a	8.73	< 0.001^***	0.2447^a
BSL-23	31.07	19.68	27.3	20.68	60.55	19.09	− 1.87	0.382	0.0131	12.05	< 0.001^***	0.3647^a	− 10.29	< 0.001^***	0.3391^a
ASRS v1.1 Screener	15.17	5.76	14.52	4.9	15.95	4.69	− 1.36	0.600	0.0069	0.94	0.780	0.0022	− 2.53	0.173	0.0205
DASS-21	59.82	27.51	46.3	27.55	82.77	23.54	− 3.90	0.016^*	0.0567	8.32	< 0.001^***	0.1740^a	− 9.26	< 0.001^***	0.2748^a
Stress	24.11	9.65	17.61	9.87	30.83	7.63	− 5.22	< 0.001^***	0.1018	7.01	< 0.001^***	0.1234	− 9.88	< 0.001^***	0.3128^a
Anxiety	16.38	10.11	10.96	8.14	23.62	9.99	− 4.42	0.005^**	0.0730	7.02	< 0.001^***	0.1238	− 9.34	< 0.001^***	0.2796^a
Depression	19.33	12.11	17.74	13.88	28.32	10.13	− 1.31	0.625	0.0064	7.36	< 0.001^***	0.1360	− 6.08	0.005^**	0.1184
EV-Child self-report	95.58	19.22	86.93	22.58	101.42	19.45	− 3.27	0.054^a	0.0399	3.29	0.053^a	0.0271	− 5.31	< 0.001^***	0.0904
CAT-Q	102.55	11.98	96.65	11.59	94.59	13.99	− 4.01	0.013^*	0.0600	− 5.83	< 0.001^***	0.0855	1.63	0.482	0.0085
Compensation	45.21	7.61	41.48	7.78	39.61	9.67	− 3.75	0.022^*	0.0524	− 5.94	< 0.001^***	0.0886	1.80	0.409	0.0104
Masking	23.13	3.91	23.04	3.61	21.27	4.46	− 0.48	0.939	0.0009	− 4.80	0.002^**	0.0579	3.47	0.038^*	0.0385
Assimilation	34.2	4.42	32.13	4.75	33.7	4.34	− 3.97	0.014^*	0.0589	− 1.49	0.544	0.0056	− 2.18	0.273	0.0152
SPSQ SS subscale	58.01	9.47	53.13	11.34	54.65	9.71	− 4.31	0.006^**	0.0695	− 3.91	0.016^*	0.0384	− 1.22	0.663	0.0048
GAFS-8	29.61	7.58	28.63	8.68	29.5	7.29	− 0.70	0.873	0.0019	− 0.43	0.950	0.0005	− 0.23	0.9086	0.0002
CTQ-SF	49.62	16.2	45.39	14.08	57.77	17.88	− 1.99	0.337	0.0148	4.54	0.004^**	0.0518	− 5.81	< 0.001^***	0.1082
Emotional abuse	13.13	5.37	11.15	5.18	15.35	5.5	− 3.03	0.082	0.0342	3.90	0.016^*	0.0382	− 6.04	< 0.001^***	0.1168
Physical abuse	6.69	3.73	6.61	2.39	8.35	5.08	1.87	0.381	0.0131	4.45	0.005^**	0.0499	− 2.04	0.32	0.0133
Sexual abuse	8.11	4.9	5.78	2.5	9.61	6.23	− 5.00	0.001^**	0.0933	1.46	0.0557^a	0.0053	− 5.63	< 0.001^***	0.1016
Emotional neglect	13.7	4.84	13.85	5.06	15.27	4.79	0.37	0.964	0.0005	3.01	0.0850	0.0227	− 1.87	0.384	0.0112
Physical neglect	7.99	2.81	8	3.39	9.19	3.62	− 0.64	0.895	0.0015	3.20	0.062^a	0.0257	− 3.03	0.082	0.0294
ABE	44.09	22.12	40.5	22.14	43.87	25.05	− 1.36	0.603	0.0069	− 0.41	0.955	0.0004	− 1.001	0.759	0.0032

*p < 0.05, ^**p < 0.01, ^***p < 0.001
^aTrend towards significance

Back to article page

ISSN: 2040-2392

Contact us

General enquiries: journalsubmissions@springernature.com