Automatic processing of facial affects in patients with borderline personality disorder: associations with symptomatology and comorbid disorders

Table 8 Spearman rank correlations between priming and latency difference scores and comorbidity in the patient sample (N = 29)

Disorders	Priming scores				Latency difference scores
Disorders	A (ne)^a	A (no)	H (ne)	H (no)	A (ne)	A (no)	H (ne)	H (no)
Axis I disorders
Affective	−0.15	0.04	−0.24	−0.08	0.32	0.45*	−0.01	0.12
Anxiety	−0.22	−0.06	0.43*	0.51**	0.04	−0.02	0.16	−0.03
Somatoform	−0.20	−0.34	−0.20	−0.11	−0.02	−0.31	0.16	−0.08
Eating	0.21	0.24	−0.11	−0.09	0.20	0.03	0.03	−0.23
Total number of Axis I disorders	−0.15	0.10	0.06	0.36	0.15	−0.24	0.32	−0.16
Personality disorders
Paranoid	0.19	0.42*	−0.17	−0.01	0.43*	0.08	0.31	−0.09
Schizotypal	−0.15	0.04	−0.36	−0.28	−0.02	0.05	0.08	0.24
Avoidant	−0.06	0.09	−0.13	−0.17	−0.05	0.22	−0.27	−0.08
Dependent	−0.09	0.25	−0.18	0.14	0.17	0.05	0.15	0.01
Obsessive–compulsive	0.40*	0.02	−0.11	−0.39*	−0.05	−0.27	0.02	−0.46*
Total number of personality disorders	0.16	0.29	−0.32	−0.29	0.18	0.08	0.10	−0.13

A (ne) angry prime vs. neutral prime baseline, A (no) angry prime vs. no facial expression baseline, H (ne) happy prime vs. neutral prime baseline, H (no) happy prime vs. no facial expression baseline.
^aExperimental condition.
** p < 0.01; * p < 0.05.

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