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Table 7 Descriptive statistics (N, means, standard deviations, medians, and range) and posterior medians of the estimated correlation with ESI-BF subfactors for Life History of Aggression and criminological measures

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

 

Descriptive statistics

Est. corr. [90% HDI]

Measure

N

M (SD)

Md

Range

ESI-BFDIS

ESI-BFAGG

ESI-BFSUB

LHATOT

75

34.6 (10.51)

37

7–50

0.55 [0.42, 0.68]

0.33 [0.15, 0.50]

0.40 [0.23, 0.56]

LHAAGG

77

17.58 (5.46)

18

4–25

0.44 [0.28, 0.59]

0.34 [0.18, 0.52]

0.29 [0.11, 0.46]

LHAANTI

76

13.92 (5.25)

15

0–20

0.53 [0.39, 0.66]

0.34 [0.17, 0.51]

0.49 [0.34, 0.63]

LHASELF

75

3.27 (3.06)

3

0–10

0.21 [0.01, 0.38]

− 0.10 [-0.29, 0.10]

0.02 [-0.18, 0.21]

Age at first crime

73

14.96 (7.10)

14

6–47

− 0.27 [-0.46, − 0.08]

− 0.24 [-0.44, − 0.04]

− 0.16 [-0.37, 0.03]

Age at first sentence

77

22.73 (8.22)

19

15–50

− 0.24 [-0.42, − 0.06]

− 0.23 [-0.42, − 0.05]

− 0.27 [-0.45, − 0.09]

Total number of sentences

77

7.43 (8.23)

4

1–50

0.20 [0.00, 0.39]

0.18 [-0.02, 0.39]

0.19 [0.00, 0.39]

Total number of prison sentences

77

1.96 (5.14)

0

0–38

0.08 [-0.14, 0.28]

0.18 [-0.03, 0.37]

0.12 [-0.08, 0.32]

  1. Note. ESI-BFDIS, ESI-BFAGG, and ESI-BFSUB represent item-based subfactors from the Externalizing Spectrum Inventory-Brief Form; HDI, highest density interval. Estimated correlations for which the 90% HDI does not contain zero are highlighted in bold