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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Schizophr Res. 2012 Nov 3;142(1-3):88–92. doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2012.10.012

Table 1.

Descriptive Statistics, Item-Total Correlations, and Stability Estimates for BNSS Items, Subscales, and Total Score

Time 1 (n = 100) Item-total Score Correlation Time 2 (n = 37) Time 2-1 Difference (n = 37) Stability Correlation

M SD Skew Kurtosis r M SD Skew Kurtosis M SD r

Anhedonia Subscale
 1. Intensity of Pleasure 1.6 1.4 0.3 −1.1 0.64*** 1.2 1.3 0.4 −1.4 −0.3 1.0 0.69***
 2. Frequency of Pleasure 2.5 1.5 −0.1 −0.8 0.77*** 2.0 1.5 0.3 −0.77 −0.7 1.1 0.72***
 3. Intensity of Future Pleasure 0.7 1.2 1.7 1.8 0.31** 0.5 1.0 1.6 1.2 0.0 1.2 0.34*
  Subscale Total 4.7 3.3 0.3 −0.7 -- 3.7 3.3 0.8 −0.2 −1.0 2.1 0.78***
Distress Subscale
 4. Lack of Normal Distress 1.0 1.8 1.7 1.7 0.57*** 0.6 1.1 2.1 4.3 −0.2 1.2 0.74***
Asociality Subscale
 5. Asociality Behavior 2.4 1.8 0.3 −0.8 0.83*** 2.4 1.5 0.3 −0.6 −0.2 1.4 0.67***
 6. Asociality Inner-Experience 1.8 1.8 0.8 −0.5 0.85*** 1.7 1.8 0.8 −0.5 −0.2 1.0 0.84***
  Subscale Total 4.3 3.4 0.6 −0.5 -- 4.1 3.1 0.6 −0.5 −0.4 2.1 0.82***
Avolition Subscale
 7. Avolition Behavior 2.6 1.8 0.0 −1.2 0.79*** 2.2 1.7 0.2 −1.0 −0.1 0.9 0.86***
 8. Avolition Inner-Experience 2.2 1.9 0.2 −1.4 0.80*** 1.8 1.7 0.5 −1.0 −0.4 0.8 0.91***
  Subscale Total 4.8 3.5 0.1 −1.3 -- 4.0 3.2 0.4 −1.0 −0.5 1.6 0.91***
Blunted Affect Subscale
 9. Facial Expression 2.5 1.8 0.0 −1.2 0.85*** 2.2 1.7 0.1 −1.2 −0.2 1.2 0.75***
 10. Vocal Expression 2.0 1.9 0.5 −1.1 0.87*** 1.9 1.9 0.6 −0.6 0.1 1.3 0.78***
 11. Expressive Gestures 2.3 1.9 0.2 −1.2 0.84*** 1.8 1.8 0.6 −0.9 −0.2 1.2 0.82***
  Subscale Total 6.7 5.3 0.2 −1.2 -- 5.9 5.1 0.3 −1.4 −0.4 2.7 0.87***
Alogia Subscale
 12. Quantity of Speech 1.2 1.7 1.3 0.5 0.84*** 1.1 1.3 1.6 3.7 0.3 0.9 0.80***
 13. Spontaneous Elaboration 1.4 1.8 1.1 −0.1 0.78*** 1.0 1.4 1.5 2.5 0.2 1.2 0.68***
  Subscale Total 2.6 3.5 1.2 0.3 -- 2.1 2.7 1.6 3.5 0.5 1.9 0.91***
BNSS Total Score 24.1 17.0 0.5 −0.5 -- 20.3 14.8 0.6 −0.4 −1.9 6.1 0.93***

Note.

*

p < 0.05;

**

p < 0.01;

***

p < 0.001