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Table 7 The Inventory of Personality Organisation (IPO) subscales and Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire-Revised (PDQ-R) subscales among outpatients (N = 138)

From: The Inventory of Personality Organisation: its psychometric properties among student and clinical populations in Japan

 

Narcissistic personality

Borderline personality

Mean (standard deviation)

2.4 (1.6)

2.0 (1.6)

Primitive Defences

0.37*** (0.36***)

0.37*** (0.35***)

Identity Diffusion

0.55*** (0.48***)

0.54*** (0.51***)

Reality Testing

0.55*** (0.51***)

0.57*** (0.53***)

Aggression

0.57*** (0.51***)

0.58*** (0.55***)

Moral Value

0.53*** (0.46***)

0.45*** (0.41***)

Age

-0.37***

0.22*

Gender (men 1: women 2)a

-0.05

0.04

  1. aGender was unknown for one case.
  2. *P < 0.05; **P < 0.01; ***P < 0.001; parentheses indicate partial correlations controlling for age and gender.
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Annals of General Psychiatry

ISSN: 1744-859X