Table 4.

BSI Raw Score Comparisons between Study Male Sample and Normative Male Sample

	Normative male samplea(n = 425)		This male sample (n = 407)
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	95% confidence interval for this male sample
Somatization	0.67	0.71	0.92b	0.82	0.84 to 1.00
Obsessive compulsive	1.53	0.98	1.44	1.09	1.33 to 1.55
Interpersonal sensitivity	1.48	1.06	1.37b	1.08	1.26 to 1.47
Depression	1.65	1.11	1.39b	1.06	1.29 to 1.50
Anxiety	1.51	0.95	1.21b	1.02	1.11 to 1.31
Hostility	1.07	0.90	1.07	1.59	0.92 to 1.23
Phobic anxiety	0.79	0.84	0.79	0.90	0.70 to 0.87
Paranoid ideation	1.06	0.93	1.44b	1.00	1.34 to 1.54
Psychoticism	1.12	0.84	1.28b	0.97	1.18 to 1.37
Global Severity Index	1.20	0.70	1.19	0.77	1.12 to 1.27

^aAdult Psychiatric Outpatients.⁵⁰

^bp < 0.05.

BSI, Brief Symptom Inventory; SD, standard deviation.