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. 2023 Mar 22;18(3):e0282777. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0282777

Table 2. Norms and reliability of the S-Five 5 factors and total scores (N = 772).

Factor descriptive indices internal consistency stability
mean
(sd)
median
(Q1-Q3)
mode
(min-max)
Gender
difference mean (sd)
Age
rho
α / ω ITC Psi
(95% CI)
ICC
Externalising 19.38 (12.9) 18 (9–29) 7 (0–50) -1.6 (0.9) 0.02 0.87 / 0.87 0.66–0.73 0.84 (0.8,1) 0.87
Internalising 6.34 (9.7) 2 (0–9) 0 (0–49) 0.8 (0.7) **-0.23 0.91 / 0.92 0.70–0.84 0.82 (0.8,1) 0.86
Impact 4.05 (7.0) 1 (0–5) 0 (0–48) 0.3 (0.5) **-0.11 0.85 / 0.86 0.56–0.79 0.81 (0.8,1) 0.86
Outburst 5.28 (7.5) 2 (0–7) 0 (0–44) -0.3 (0.5) **-0.17 0.83 / 0.84 0.61–0.71 0.81 (0.8,1) 0.86
Threat 14.58 (13.8) 10 (3–23) 0 (0–50) 1.6 (1.0) **-0.17 0.93 / 0.93 0.75–0.85 0.87 (0.8,1) 0.89
S-Five total 49.64 (40.1) 38 (18–72) 0 (0–215) 0.7 (2.9) **-0.13 0.94 / 0.94 0.43–0.75 0.87 (0.8,1) 0.88

‡ mean difference (standard error) male vs female comparison, p-value via Mann Whitney test; sd: Standard deviation; Q1 and Q3 first and third quartile respectively; α: Cronbach’s alpha; ω: McDonald’s omega; ITC: Item-total correlations; ICC: Intraclass correlation coefficient (two-way mixed effects, absolute agreement).