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. 2008 Apr 25;34(6):1035–1041. doi: 10.1093/schbul/sbn028

Table 3.

Crude and Adjusted ORs and 95% CIs for Risk of Developing Psychiatric Disorders for the 4 Intelligence Subtests

General Knowledge
Verbal IQ
Visuospatial Ability
Mechanical Ability
Crude Adjusteda Crude Adjusted Crude Adjusted Crude Adjusted
Psychoses 1.16 (0.97, 1.38) 0.92 (0.70, 1.22) 1.14 (0.96, 1.36) 0.91 (0.70, 1.20) 1.39 (1.15, 1.66) 1.33 (1.06, 1.68) 1.36 (1.13, 1.63) 1.30 (1.02, 1.65)
Depressive neuroses 1.05 (1.01, 1.10) 0.99 (0.93, 1.06) 1.04 (1.00, 1.08) 0.97 (0.91, 1.03) 1.10 (1.05, 1.15) 1.08 (1.02, 1.13) 1.10 (1.05, 1.15) 1.08 (1.03, 1.14)
Other neuroses 1.14 (1.11, 1.17) 1.08 (1.04, 1.12) 1.11 (1.08, 1.14) 0.98 (0.95, 1.02) 1.12 (1.09, 1.15) 1.03 (1.00, 1.06) 1.16 (1.13, 1.19) 1.10 (1.07, 1.14)
All neuroses 1.12 (1.10, 1.14) 1.06 (1.02, 1.09) 1.09 (1.07, 1.11) 0.98 (0.95, 1.01) 1.11 (1.09, 1.14) 1.04 (1.01, 1.07) 1.14 (1.12, 1.17) 1.10 (1.07, 1.13)
Personality disorder 1.27 (1.24, 1.31) 1.11 (1.06, 1.16) 1.25 (1.22, 1.29) 1.06 (1.01, 1.11) 1.24 (1.20, 1.27) 1.08 (1.04, 1.12) 1.25 (1.21, 1.29) 1.09 (1.05, 1.13)
Alcoholism 1.57 (1.45, 1.69) 1.39 (1.22, 1.57) 1.44 (1.33, 1.55) 0.98 (0.87, 1.10) 1.36 (1.25, 1.47) 1.02 (0.94, 1.12) 1.52 (1.40, 1.65) 1.23 (1.11, 1.36)
Drug dependence 1.14 (1.08, 1.21) 1.01 (0.93, 1.11) 1.14 (1.07, 1.20) 1.03 (0.93, 1.11) 1.08 (1.02, 1.14) 0.94 (0.87, 1.01) 1.26 (1.19, 1.33) 1.26 (1.17, 1.36)
Other diagnoses 1.30 (1.25, 1.34) 1.15 (1.08, 1.21) 1.29 (1.25, 1.34) 1.13 (1.07, 1.19) 1.20 (1.16, 1.24) 1.00 (0.97, 1.06) 1.23 (1.19, 1.27) 1.05 (1.00, 1.09)

Note: OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence.

a

Adjusted for the three other subtests. An OR of x is interpreted as the increase in risk for each successive IQ category. Because IQ score is coded on a 9-point scale for each subtest, the OR comparing the lowest IQ with highest IQ subjects is (x)9.