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Table 4 Descriptive statistics (means and standard deviations) and posterior medians of the estimated difference and effect size for the ESI-BF General disinhibition subfactor (N = 77)

From: Exploring the psychometric properties of the externalizing spectrum inventory-brief form in a Swedish forensic psychiatric inpatient sample

Measure

Myes (SD)

Mno (SD)

Est. diff. [90% HDI]

Est. \(\stackrel{\prime }{\delta }\) [90% HDI]

Repeated truancy

28.62 (14.69)

19.89 (10.86)

8.99 [3.95, 13.99]

0.68 [0.29, 1.08]

Repeated bullying

24.71 (14.17)

25.80 (14.11)

-1.07 [-7.88, 5.73]

-0.08 [-0.55, 0.42]

Any violence against caregiver

28.48 (14.43)

23.36 (13.48)

5.42 [-0.03, 11.00]

0.39 [0.00, 0.8]

Excessive alcohol use

30.29 (14.21)

18.91 (10.88)

11.51 [6.58, 16.37]

0.89 [0.50, 1.31]

Excessive substance use

28.05 (14.18)

17.39 (10.12)

10.86 [5.64, 16.05]

0.82 [0.40, 1.23]

Any sentence for deadly violence

24.25 (10.17)

26.02 (15.21)

-1.45 [-6.57, 3.84]

-0.10 [-0.48, 0.26]

Multiple sentences for assault

26.15 (13.99)

24.59 (14.31)

1.78 [-3.84, 7.57]

0.13 [-0.27, 0.54]

Multiple sentences for other violence crimes

25.00 (13.94)

27.69 (14.65)

-2.50 [-9.76, 4.42]

-0.18 [-0.68, 0.31]

Any sentence for sexual crimes1

20.90 (10.05)

26.20 (14.57)

-5.18 [-11.53, 1.54]

-0.37 [-0.84, 0.10]

Multiple sentences for theft or damage to property

28.19 (14.13)

20.08 (12.40)

8.70 [3.18, 13.88]

0.66 [0.23, 1.07]

Any sentence for economics-related crimes

29.82 (12.83)

23.85 (14.24)

6.32 [0.57, 11.99]

0.46 [0.03, 0.87]

Any sentence for traffic-related crimes

26.51 (14.90)

23.46 (11.93)

3.46 [-1.97, 8.99]

0.25 [-0.14, 0.65]

Multiple sentences for narcotics-related crimes

28.24 (14.16)

16.78 (9.50)

11.66 [6.80, 16.8]

0.89 [0.48, 1.30]

Multiple sentences for weapons-related crimes

28.07 (12.53)

24.04 (14.79)

4.58 [-0.83, 10.05]

0.33 [-0.07, 0.72]

  1. Note. 1 N = 76 for sexual crimes. ESI-BF, Externalizing Spectrum Inventory-Brief Form; HDI, highest density interval; \(\stackrel{\prime }{\delta }\), bias-corrected standardized mean difference. Estimated differences for which the 90% HDI does not contain zero are highlighted in bold