No | Items | N | M | SD | Skewness | Kurtosis | Correlation with the domain total | Correlation with the total score |
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1 | I am a ‘hero worshiper’ | 254 | 0.76 | 0.95 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 0.50 | 0.40 |
2 | People I once thought highly of have disappointed me | 255 | 1.49 | 1.09 | 0.4 | −0.4 | 0.60 | 0.54 |
3 | It has been a long time since anyone taught me anything I did not know | 254 | 1.12 | 0.99 | 0.5 | −0.4 | 0.54 | 0.45 |
4 | People turn against me or betray me | 255 | 0.98 | 1.15 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.59 | 0.55 |
5 | I admire people in order to feel secure | 253 | 1.58 | 1.15 | 0.3 | −0.7 | 0.59 | 0.57 |
6 | I do things that at other times I think are not too wise | 255 | 0.83 | 1.09 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.52 | 0.44 |
7 | I have difficulty in seeing shortcomings in those I admire | 255 | 0.36 | 0.70 | 1.9 | 2.4 | 0.45 | 0.44 |
8 | I don’t get what I want | 255 | 1.45 | 1.26 | 0.6 | −0.6 | 0.64 | 0.56 |
9 | I behave in contradictory ways | 252 | 0.94 | 1.10 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.65 | 0.61 |
10 | People are basically either good or bad | 255 | 0.93 | 1.14 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.57 | 0.46 |
11 | People use me | 254 | 0.83 | 1.04 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.64 | 0.59 |
12 | I act in unpredictable and erratic ways | 255 | 1.50 | 1.21 | 0.4 | −0.8 | 0.57 | 0.61 |
13 | I have favourite people whom I idealise | 254 | 1.84 | 1.30 | 0.1 | −1.1 | 0.45 | 0.33 |
14 | I do things that I later find hard to believe I did | 255 | 1.65 | 1.09 | 0.4 | −0.6 | 0.62 | 0.57 |
15 | People either overwhelm me with love or abandon me | 255 | .72 | 1.03 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 0.67 | 0.60 |
16 | I feel things with either joy or despair | 255 | 1.24 | 1.21 | 0.8 | −0.2 | 0.68 | 0.66 |
| Identity diffusion |
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17 | Others see me as quite different from the way I really am | 254 | 0.79 | 1.14 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 0.63 | 0.64 |
18 | I’m different at home than I am at work/school | 255 | 1.34 | 1.30 | 0.6 | −0.8 | 0.63 | 0.57 |
19 | My tastes and opinions are borrowed from other people | 255 | 0.94 | 1.13 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.61 | 0.62 |
20 | I behave differently in different situations | 255 | 1.40 | 1.15 | 0.5 | −0.7 | 0.66 | 0.59 |
21 | I fluctuate between being warm and cold | 254 | 1.74 | 1.20 | 0.3 | −0.7 | 0.70 | 0.63 |
22 | I provoke people to get my way | 254 | 0.51 | 0.88 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 0.52 | 0.59 |
23 | I can’t explain the changes in my behaviour | 253 | 1.13 | 1.14 | 0.8 | −0.1 | 0.56 | 0.52 |
24 | I do things on impulse that are socially unacceptable | 252 | 1.15 | 1.06 | 0.6 | −0.3 | 0.56 | 0.55 |
25 | It’s hard for me to say no | 253 | 1.53 | 1.37 | 0.4 | −1.1 | 0.53 | 0.42 |
26 | My life seems like a series of short stories | 253 | 1.14 | 1.27 | 0.9 | −0.1 | 0.49 | 0.41 |
27 | I pick up interests and then drop them | 253 | 1.27 | 1.23 | 0.7 | −0.6 | 0.54 | 0.44 |
28 | When others see me as having succeeded, I’m elated | 254 | 1.80 | 1.31 | 0.2 | −1.1 | 0.65 | 0.58 |
29 | Important people suddenly change their attitudes towards me | 254 | 2.33 | 1.39 | −0.3 | −1.2 | 0.65 | 0.53 |
30 | It is hard for me to be sure about what others think of me | 254 | 2.10 | 1.34 | −0.1 | −1.1 | 0.59 | 0.48 |
31 | Being alone is difficult | 254 | 1.30 | 1.23 | 0.5 | −0.9 | 0.35 | 0.26 |
32 | I see myself in different ways at different times | 252 | 1.74 | 1.35 | 0.3 | −1.1 | 0.69 | 0.65 |
33 | In an intimate relationship, I’m afraid of losing a sense of myself | 254 | 1.10 | 1.31 | 0.9 | −0.3 | 0.68 | 0.67 |
34 | My life goals change frequently | 252 | 1.37 | 1.19 | 0.5 | −0.7 | 0.60 | 0.55 |
35 | My goals keep changing | 248 | 1.46 | 1.28 | 0.5 | −0.8 | 0.60 | 0.55 |
36 | After being involved with people, I find out what they are really like | 254 | 1.56 | 1.08 | 0.4 | −0.2 | 0.68 | 0.63 |
37 | People cannot guess how I’m going to behave | 253 | 1.19 | 1.14 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.57 | 0.58 |
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38 | When everything is confused, I feel that way inside | 254 | 1.62 | 1.22 | 0.4 | −0.7 | 0.49 | 0.58 |
39 | I am not sure whether a voice I have heard is my imagination | 252 | 0.87 | 1.09 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.72 | 0.66 |
40 | When I am confused, things in the outside world don’t make sense either | 254 | 1.41 | 1.33 | 0.5 | −0.1 | 0.62 | 0.64 |
41 | I feel as if I’m someone else | 254 | 0.58 | 0.92 | 1.5 | 1.3 | 0.65 | 0.62 |
42 | I see things that turn out to be something else | 254 | 0.76 | 1.05 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.66 | 0.59 |
43 | When uncomfortable, I can’t tell whether it is emotional or physical | 246 | 1.10 | 1.18 | 0.8 | −0.3 | 0.60 | 0.59 |
44 | I can see/hear things that nobody else can see/hear | 248 | 0.50 | 0.84 | 1.8 | 2.8 | 0.61 | 0.49 |
45 | I hear things that are not really there | 248 | 0.42 | 0.84 | 2.1 | 3.7 | 0.61 | 0.46 |
46 | I have heard or seen things without apparent reason | 245 | 0.46 | 0.89 | 2.0 | 3.2 | 0.67 | 0.52 |
47 | I do things to upset other people | 246 | 0.65 | 0.97 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 0.63 | 0.49 |
48 | I can’t tell whether certain physical sensations are real | 246 | 0.53 | 0.95 | 1.7 | 2.2 | 0.77 | 0.61 |
49 | My wishes/thoughts will come true as if by magic | 247 | 0.71 | 1.02 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 60 | 0.50 |
50 | People see me as rude or inconsiderate | 248 | 0.46 | 0.84 | 2.0 | 3.9 | 0.66 | 0.55 |
51 | I understand things that nobody else is able to understand | 248 | 0.60 | 0.92 | 1.6 | 2.4 | 0.63 | 0.53 |
52 | I cannot tell when certain things would appear crazy to others | 247 | 0.60 | 0.95 | 1.7 | 2.5 | 0.66 | 0.56 |
53 | I have seen things that do not exist | 247 | 0.38 | 0.83 | 2.4 | 5.8 | 0.55 | 0.42 |
54 | I feel as if I have been somewhere before when I really haven’t | 248 | 1.36 | 1.22 | 0.6 | −0.5 | 0.57 | 0.49 |
55 | I can’t tell whether I simply want something to be true | 246 | 0.57 | 0.98 | 1.9 | 3.0 | 0.79 | 0.63 |
56 | Things will happen by thinking about them | 246 | 0.59 | 0.96 | 1.7 | 2.5 | 0.56 | 0.47 |
57 | I never know how to conduct myself with people | 246 | 0.71 | 1.05 | 1.5 | −0.7 | 0.71 | 0.64 |