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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Feb 9.
Published in final edited form as: J Empir Leg Stud. 2007 Dec 1;4(4):715. doi: 10.1111/j.1740-1461.2007.00105.x

Table 3.

Scale Properties at Baseline

Scale Alpha Chi-Squared CFI§ RMSEAδ
Sanction likelihood—others 0.822 143.2 0.954 0.069
Sanction likelihood—you 0.893 95.7 0.985 0.069
Social costs of offending 0.679 442.0 0.950 0.069
Personal rewards of offending (thrills) 0.874 349.9 0.944 0.093
Social rewards of offending* 0.75–0.82 na 0.94–0.98 0.07–0.08
Punishment costs—freedom na na na na
Punishment costs—material na na na na
Procedural justice—police/you 0.740 30.8 0.925 0.059
Procedural justice—police/others 0.570 22.6 0.966 0.056
Procedural justice—judge/you 0.748 279.5 0.925 0.059
Procedural justice—judge/others 0.652 90.6 0.939 0.078
Legitimacy 0.786 297.7 0.921 0.070
Legal cynicism 0.572 14.3 0.990 0.028
Self-reported offending: total 0.884 62.6 0.969 0.053
Self-reported offending: aggressive 0.774 108.0 0.956 0.041
Self-reported offending: income 0.798 122.2 0.954 0.056
Brief symptom inventory—GSI 0.953 8945.5 0.733 0.065
Psychosocial maturity index 0.890 1415.1 0.866 0.044
Substance dependence na na na na
*

Social rewards is sum of three separate scales: fighting, stealing, robbery.

Punishment costs and substance abuse dependence are counts.

§

Comparative fit index. See Bentler (1990).

δ

Root mean square of error of approximation. See Kline (1998).