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Table 1 Demographic characteristics of the participants

From: The Social Safeness and Pleasure Scale (SSPS): a psychometric evaluation of the Swedish version in a non-clinical sample and two clinical samples with eating disorders or borderline personality disorder

 

NC sample (n = 407)

ED sample (n = 103)

BPD sample (n = 58)

Mean age, years (SD)

30.4 (10.7)

25.1 (6.4)

26.4 (7.0)

Age range, years

18–77

18–48

18–59

Gendera

Women

303 (74.4%)

96 (93.2%)

53 (91.4%)

Men

103 (25.3%)

6 (5.8%)

5 (8.6%)

Marital status

Single

175 (43.1%)

55 (54.5%)

24 (42.1%)

Married or in relationship

228 (56.2%)

43 (42.6%)

42 (56.1%)

Other (e.g., living with parents)

3 (0.7%)

3 (3.0%)

1 (1.8%)

Highest level of education

Elementary school

11 (2.7%)

16 (15.5%)

19 (33.3%)

High school

119 (29.2%)

51 (49.5%)

30 (52.6%)

Higher education

277 (68.1%)

36 (35.0%)

8 (14.0%)

Occupation

Paid work

176 (43.2%)

36 (35.3%)

17 (30.4%)

Student or internship

186 (45.7%)

47 (46.1%)

11 (19.6%)

Unemployed

26 (6.4%)

1 (1.0%)

8 (14.3%)

Sick leave (including disability pension)

17 (4.2%)

17 (16.7%)

18 (32.1%)

Other (e.g., parental leave)

1 (0.5%)

1 (1.0%)

2 (3.6%)

  1. NC Non-clinical, ED Eating disorder, BPD Borderline personality disorder
  2. a Two participants did not report gender (one NC, one ED), b Four participants did not report marital status (one NC, two ED, one BPD), c One BPD participant did not report level of education, e Three participants did not report occupation (one ED, two BPD)