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. 2022 Apr 11;32(9):1679–1689. doi: 10.1007/s00787-022-01980-1

Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics and Zero Order Correlations for whole sample (top) and youth offender subsample (bottom)

Whole sample (n = 130)
M SD Correlation
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
1. CU traits 26.08 8.21
2. Anxiety 5.65 4.21 −0.09
3. Structural language 79.55 20.84 −0.18* 0.01
4. Pragmatic Language 48.41 6.91 −0.01 0.02 0.57***
5. Age 16.38 1.36 0.13 0.18* −0.36*** 0.05
6. Ethnicity 1.54 0.5 −0.11 0.03 0.30*** 0.22* −0.09
7. SES 3.26 1.87 0.08 0.002 0.08 0.20* 0.06 0.03
8. Education 9.56 1.53 −0.23** 0.17 0.01 0.14 0.47*** 0.03 −0.08
9. Non-verbal ability 92.4 13.67 −0.05 0.08 0.64*** 0.44*** −0.12 0.09 0.1 0.12
10. Offender status 1.38 0.49 −0.26*** −0.18* 0.59*** 0.32*** −0.48*** 0.08 −0.19* 0.07 0.43***
Youth offenders (n = 81)
M SD Correlation
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1. CU traits 27.74 8.62
2. Anxiety 6.23 4.18 −0.2
3. Structural language 70 17.17 0.02 0.1
4. Pragmatic language 46.68 7.3 0.14 0.11 0.56***
5. Age 16.88 1.28 0.01 0.13 −0.15 0.19
6. Ethnicity 1.51 0.5 −0.1 −0.01 0.25* 0.16 −0.03
7. SES 3.54 2.12 0.14 −0.08 0.2 0.30** −0.04 −0.04
8. Education 9.48 1.74 −0.29** 0.26* −0.05 0.07 0.47*** 0.09 −0.05
9. Non-verbal ability 87.89 11.41 0.17 0.12 0.46*** 0.38*** 0.02 −0.08 0.23* −0.01
10. Age first offence 14.83 1.67 −0.25* 0.29** 0.00 0.23* 0.51*** 0.14 0.04 0.57*** 0.03
11. Violent offending 3.1 3.66 0.12 0.07 0.07 0.05 0.21 −0.13 0.18 −0.16 0.13 −0.17

Variable CU Traits (ICU total scale score); Anxiety (YSR anxious-depressed subscale score); Structural Language (CELF-4, Core Language Score); Pragmatic Language (TASIT, Social Inference Minimal, sum of scores); Age (years); Ethnicity (Indigenous = 1, Non-Indigenous = 2); SES (IRSAD categories); Education (total years schooling completed); Nonverbal Ability (KBIT-2 Matrices subtest standard score); Offender Status (Youth Offender = 1, Non-Offender = 2); Age First Offence (years, youth justice data); Violent Offending (total violent offences, youth justice data)

***p ≤ 0.001; **p ≤ 0.01; *p ≤ 0.05