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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Assess. 2015 Mar 16;27(3):997–1012. doi: 10.1037/a0038828

Table 10.

Results for the ROC analysis of the five-factors and total score of the SAQ by gender

True positive True negative False positive False negative

Gender Sensitivity Specificity Cut AUC SE 95% CI z p N % N % N % N %
Males
F1 .841 .882 17 .924 .013 .917 - .931 33.340 .000 106 84.1 5398 88.2 724 11.8 20 15.9
F2 .810 .839 18 .898 .015 .890 - .905 27.507 .000 102 81.0 5151 83.9 986 16.1 24 19.1
F3 .865 .797 18 .901 .013 .894 - .909 29.966 .000 109 86.5 4882 79.7 1245 20.3 17 13.5
F4 .794 .725 19 .825 .018 .816 - .836 17.937 .000 100 79.4 4444 72.5 1682 27.5 26 20.6
F5 .730 .865 19 .875 .015 .867 - .883 25.513 .000 92 73.0 5307 86.6 825 13.5 34 27.0
Total .937 .853 89 .959 .006 .954 - .964 76.603 .000 118 93.7 5153 85.3 887 14.7 8 6.3

Females
F1 .812 .792 15 .888 .012 .881 - .895 32.765 .000 169 81.3 5918 79.2 1555 20.8 39 18.8
F2 .750 .837 20 .874 .012 .867 - .882 31.348 .000 156 75.0 6265 83.7 1221 16.3 52 25.0
F3 .755 .825 21 ..867 .012 .858 - .875 30.046 .000 157 75.5 6182 82.5 1311 17.5 51 24.5
F4 .769 .787 21 .848 .013 .840 - .856 27.528 .000 160 76.9 5889 78.7 1597 21.3 48 23.1
F5 .740 .832 19 .874 .012 .867 - .882 32.365 .000 154 74.0 6222 83.2 1260 16.8 54 26.0
Total .841 .895 98 .945 .006 .939 - .950 70.976 .000 175 84.1 6598 89.5 772 10.5 33 15.9

Total sample
F1 .799 .841 16 .901 .009 .896 - .906 45.077 .000 267 79.9 11431 84.1 2164 15.9 67 20.1
F2 .832 .780 18 .885 .009 .880 - .890 42.466 .000 278 83.2 10620 78.0 3003 22.0 56 16.8
F3 .895 .718 18 .882 .009 .876 - .887 42.772 .000 299 89.5 9772 71.8 3848 28.3 35 10.5
F4 .784 .750 20 .840 .011 .834 - .846 32.496 .000 252 78.4 10208 75.0 3404 25.0 72 21.6
F5 .737 .847 19 .875 .009 .870 - .881 41.588 .000 246 73.7 11528 84.7 2086 15.3 88 26.4
Total .925 .821 90 .951 .004 .947 - .954 103.178 .000 309 92.5 11010 82.1 2400 17.9 25 7.5

Note 1. F1. Interactions with strangers; F2. Speaking in public/Talking with people in authority; F3. Interactions with the opposite sex; F4. Criticism and embarrassment; F5. Assertive expression of annoyance, disgust or displeasure.

Note 2. Non-clinical sample for the ROC analysis was participants with a score on the LSAS-SR lower than 60.