Affect regulation in psychoanalytic treatments of patients with a borderline personality disorder–psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy–a comparison

Table 5 Univariate analysis of the variable “Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure Borderline” (mean ± SD)

Patient characteristics	Estimate		T value	P value
PDT group	4.07	1.86	2.19	0.042a
Sex of patient	2.89	5.18	0.56	0.584
Sex of therapist	7.15	4.24	1.68	0.109
Education: Apprenticeship	12.21	10.49	1.16	0.261
Education: Vocational school	3.15	8.29	0.38	0.709
Education: High school	-2.80	5.78	-0.48	0.635
Married	-1.03	7.19	-0.14	0.888
Divorced	-0.39	9.90	-0.04	0.969
Age	0.41	0.22	1.81	0.087

^aP < 0.05. SWAP-borderline: Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure personality syndrome “dysregulated/borderline”; PDT: Psychodynamic psychotheray.