Table 2 Sociodemographic Characteristics of BPD Reddit Sample (N = 992 Users)

From: Psychosocial dynamics of suicidality and nonsuicidal self-injury: a digital linguistic perspective

Characteristic

Mean

SD

Age (n = 260; 26.21%)

27.87

8.06

 

n

%

Gender (n = 394; 39.71%)

 Female

237

60.15

 Male

146

37.06

 Non-binary

11

2.79

Country of residence (n = 294; 29.64%)

 UK

87

29.59

 US

75

25.51

 Canada

55

18.71

 Australia

29

9.86

 Other European country

34

11.56

 Other non-European country

14

4.76

Religion (n = 102; 10.28%)

 Non-religious/atheist

48

47.06

 Religious

39

38.24

 Spiritual

7

6.86

 Agnostic

8

7.84

Relationship status (n = 700; 70.56%)

 Single

156

22.29

 In a relationship

378

54.00

 Married

140

20.00

 Divorced/separated

26

3.71

  1. Note. The ns and percentages provided alongside each of the demographic categories reflect the total number of users (and percentage of the sample) we were able to extract each demographic variable for.