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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Assess. 2013 Dec;25(4):1332–1348. doi: 10.1037/a0034864

Table 2.

Full and Brief Form Externalizing Spectrum Inventory (ESI) Scale Means and Standard Deviations in Student and Prisoner Subgroups of Overall ESI Development Sample (ns = 871 and 916)


Student (M, SD) Prisoner (M, SD)

Externalizing Facet ESI ESI–bf ESI ESI–bf
Problematic Impulsivity −.72 (.61) −.70 (.58) .68 (.74) .67 (.71)
Irresponsibility −.72 (.58) −.69 (.55) .68 (.71) .66 (.70)
Theft −.67 (.58) −.62 (.55) .64 (.77) .59 (.81)
Fraud −.56 (.61) −.54 (.53) .54 (.89) .51 (.87)
Impatient Urgency −.42 (.72) −.36 (.72) .40 (.96) .35 (.95)
Planful Control .38 (.74) .31 (.70) −.37 (.93) −.30 (.83)
Dependability .34 (.71) .35 (.70) −.33 (.88) −.33 (.86)
Alienation −.48 (.80) −.45 (.73) .44 (.83) .41 (.82)
Boredom Proneness −.34 (.74) −.32 (.77) .32 (1.0) .30 (.95)
Blame Extemalization −.39 (.79) −.33 (.76) .36 (.92) .31 (.92)
Honesty .20 (.67) .25 (.77) −.20 (.87) −.23 (.99)
Rebelliousness −.49 (.73) −.48 (.69) .47 (.89) .46 (.89)
Physical Aggression −.53 (.67) −.53 (.60) .50 (.92) .51 (.88)
Destructive Aggression −.33 (.69) −.33 (.62) .32 (.98) .31 (.95)
Relational Aggression −.26 (.74) −.23 (.76) .25 (1.1) .22 (1.01)
Empathy .26 (.76) .24 (.70) −.24 (.96) −.23 (.94)
Excitement Seeking −.21 (.78) −.13 (.76) .20 (1.1) ,12 (1.06)
Marijuana Use −.57 (.78) −.54 (.78) .53 (.73) .49 (.67)
Marijuana Problems −.52 (.62) −.49 (.54) .50 (.85) .47 (.87)
Drug Use −.62 (.71) −.57 (.64) .59 (.71) .54 (.70)
Drug Problems −.67 (.54) −.65 (.45) .68 (.71) .62 (.73)
Alcohol Use −.20 (1.00) −.20 (.93) .19 (.85) .19 (.80)
Alcohol Problems −.44 (.72) −.44 (.64) .41 (.97) .42 (.96)

Note. Externalizing facet scales were estimated using maximum likelihood item response theory based scoring with means and standard deviations parameterized as zero and one in the overall sample, respectively.