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Table 6 Descriptive statistics (means and standard deviations) and posterior medians of the estimated difference and effect size for the ESI-BF Substance abuse 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

30.4 (13.78)

18.56 (12.67)

12.58 [7.12, 17.88]

0.94 [0.51, 1.37]

Repeated bullying

26.65 (14.55)

26.13 (14.58)

0.54 [-6.5, 7.69]

0.04 [-0.43, 0.52]

Any violence against caregiver

28.97 (14.38)

24.2 (14.38)

5.21 [-0.53, 10.9]

0.36 [-0.03, 0.76]

Excessive alcohol use

31.69 (13.53)

18.59 (12.28)

13.69 [8.51, 18.82]

1.04 [0.63, 1.48]

Excessive substance use

31.44 (12.12)

9.22 (5.95)

23.33 [19.7, 26.97]

2.18 [1.67, 2.76]

Any sentence for deadly violence

24.8 (14.62)

26.75 (14.52)

-2 [-8.47, 4.62]

-0.14 [-0.57, 0.32]

Multiple sentences for assault

28.1 (13.8)

23.17 (15.28)

5.25 [-0.83, 11.23]

0.36 [-0.06, 0.77]

Multiple sentences for other violence crimes

25.93 (13.99)

27.44 (16.65)

-1.57 [-9.73, 6.42]

-0.11 [-0.64, 0.43]

Any sentence for sexual crimes1

19.6 (14.77)

27.08 (14.33)

-7.96 [-16.91, 1.05]

-0.55 [-1.16, 0.07]

Multiple sentences for theft or damage to property

28.75 (14.09)

21.04 (14.15)

8.1 [2.06, 13.99]

0.57 [0.14, 0.99]

Any sentence for economics-related crimes

31.36 (11.81)

24.2 (15.03)

7.47 [2.09, 13.21]

0.52 [0.13, 0.92]

Any sentence for traffic-related crimes

29.02 (12.91)

20.12 (16.1)

9.75 [3.02, 16.14]

0.69 [0.2, 1.16]

Multiple sentences for narcotics-related crimes

31.54 (12.05)

8.89 (5.05)

23.43 [20.07, 26.83]

2.21 [1.71, 2.73]

Multiple sentences for weapons-related crimes

30.76 (12.45)

23.52 (15.05)

7.72 [1.97, 13.01]

0.54 [0.15, 0.94]

  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