Table 5.

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

	Normative female samplea(n = 577)		This female sample (n = 167)
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	95% confidence interval for this female sample
Somatization	0.94	0.84	1.19b	0.90	1.05 to 1.33
Obsessive compulsive	1.60	1.01	1.66	1.06	1.50 to 1.83
Interpersonal sensitivity	1.66	1.04	1.43b	1.07	1.27 to 1.60
Depression	1.90	1.05	1.51b	0.99	1.36 to 1.67
Anxiety	1.82	1.02	1.39b	0.99	1.23 to 1.54
Hostility	1.23	0.95	1.13	0.93	0.99 to 1.27
Phobic anxiety	0.91	0.91	0.76b	0.81	0.64 to 0.88
Paranoid ideation	1.21	0.97	1.49b	1.03	1.33 to 1.64
Psychoticism	1.24	0.89	1.29b	0.97	1.14 to 1.43
Global Severity Index	1.40	0.72	1.33b	0.79	1.21 to 1.45

^aAdult Psychiatric Outpatients.⁵⁰

^bp < 0.05.

BSI, Brief Symptom Inventory; SD, standard deviation.