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Table 3 Comparison of SSPS and HSCL-25 mean values in the NC, ED, and BPD samples

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

Item

Mean (SD), NC sample (n = 407)

Mean (SD), ED sample (n = 103)

Mean (SD), BPD sample (n = 58)

F value

Tukey post hoc

SSPS

40.7 (9.6)

34.5 (10.4)

25.7 (8.0)

71.5

BPD*** < ED*** < NC***

HSCL-25

1.88 (0.63)

2.50 (0.63)

2.76 (0.49)

82.4

NC < ED***, NC < BPD***, ED < BPD*

  1. SSPS Social Safeness and Pleasure Scale, HSCL-25 The hopkins symptom checklist-25, NC Non-clinical, ED Eating disorder, BPD Borderline personality disorder
  2. * < 0.05, ** < 0.01, *** < 0.001