Table 1.
Baseline Characteristics of Pathological Gamblers by Antisocial Personality Disorder Status and Sex
| No Antisocial Personality Disorder | Antisocial Personality Disorder | |||||
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| Variable | Statistic (df) | p | ||||
| Male (101) | Female (89) | Male (26) | Female (10) | |||
| Employed full time, % (n) | 66.3 (67) | 46.1 (41) | 57.7 (15) | 40.0 (4) | χ2(3) = 9.02 | .03 |
| Married/living together, % (n) | 46.5 (47) | 41.6 (37) | 15.4 (4) | 30.0 (3) | χ2(3) = 8.84 | .03 |
| Race, % (n) | χ2(6) = 11.95 | .06 | ||||
| Caucasian | 82.2 (83) | 91.0 (81) | 80.8 (21) | 60.0 (6) | ||
| African American | 9.9 (10) | 5.6 (5) | 11.5 (3) | 10.0 (1) | ||
| Other | 7.9 (8) | 3.4 (3) | 7.7 (2) | 30.0 (3) | ||
| Agea | 42.7 ± 11.4 | 48.7 ± 10.1 | 40.7 ± 7.6 | 41.8 ± 10.9 | F(3, 222) = 7.10 | <.001 |
| Years of educationa | 14.4 ± 2.1 | 13.8 ± 2.5 | 13.2 ± 2.7 | 12.0 ± 3.0 | F(3, 222) = 4.54 | .004 |
| Number of DSM criteria for pathological gamblinga | 7.1 ± 1.6 | 7.1 ± 1.5 | 8.5 ± 1.4 | 8.7 ± 3.5 | F(3, 222) = 8.06 | <.001 |
| Annual income b | $43,000 ± 35,250 | $35,000 ± 35,500 | $36,500 ± 49,305 | $22,100 ± 23,463 | F(3, 222) = .90 | .44 |
| Addition Severity Index scoresa | ||||||
| Medical | 0.3 ± 0.3 | 0.4 ± 0.3 | 0.3 ± 0.4 | 0.8 ± 0.2 | F(3, 222) = 8.94 | <.001 |
| Employment | 0.2 ± 0.3 | 0.3 ± 0.2 | 0.2 ± 0.2 | 0.4 ± 0.4 | F(3, 220) = 2.12 | .10 |
| Gambling | 0.7 ± 0.2 | 0.7 ± 0.2 | 0.8 ± 0.2 | 0.7 ± 0.2 | F(3, 222) = 2.69 | .05 |
| Alcohol | 0.1 ± 0.1 | 0.1 ± 0.1 | 0.1 ± 0.2 | 0.1 ± 0.2 | F(3, 222) = 1.65 | .18 |
| Drug | 0.0± 0.1 | 0.1 ± 0.1 | 0.0 ± 0.1 | 0.1 ± 0.1 | F(3, 222) = 4.18 | .007 |
| Legal | 0.1 ± 0.2 | 0.0 ± 0.1 | 0.1 ± 0.2 | 0.0 ± 0.1 | F(3, 222) = 4.31 | .006 |
| Family | 0.3 ± 0.2 | 0.3 ± 0.2 | 0.3 ± 0.3 | 0.2 ± 0.1 | F(3, 222) = 1.65 | .18 |
| Psychiatric | 0.3 ± 0.2 | 0.3 ± 0.2 | 0.4 ± 0.2 | 0.3 ± 0.2 | F(3, 222) = 1.49 | .22 |
| Past month days gambled a | 11.0 ± 9.3 | 11.0 ± 9.5 | 17.3 ± 10.9 | 18.8 ± 11.4 | F(3, 222) = 3.76 | .01 |
| Past month money spent gambling b | $1,400 ± 3,575 | $1,266 ±2,441 | $2,650 ± 7,481 | $520 ±2,292 | F(3, 222) = 2.55 | .06 |
a
Mean ± standard deviation
b
Median ± interquartile range; values log transformed prior to analyses. Specific groups that differ from one another in post-hoc tests are described in the Results section.