Table 1.
Descriptive statistics and phenotypic correlations between personality traits and antisocial behavior.
| Texas sample | N | M (SD) | E | A | C | N | O | SS | URG | PRE | PER | ASB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extraversion (E) | 835 | 3.24 (0.73) | 1 | .12 | .04 | −.20 | .02 | .21 | .02 | .21 | −.16 | .14 |
| Agreeableness (A) | 835 | 3.72 (0.53) | 1 | .25 | −.29 | .00 | −.06 | −.33 | −.20 | −.22 | −.25 | |
| Conscientiousness (C) | 835 | 3.35 (0.61) | 1 | −.21 | .02 | −.20 | −.33 | −.46 | −.68 | −.28 | ||
| Neuroticism (N) | 835 | 2.85 (0.68) | 1 | .01 | .00 | .46 | .00 | .22 | .09 | |||
| Openness (O) | 835 | 3.83 (0.51) | 1 | .08 | −.01 | −.06 | −.06 | −.06 | ||||
| Sensation seeking (SS) | 835 | 3.18 (0.70) | 1 | .26 | .36 | .06 | .47 | |||||
| Urgency (URG) | 835 | 2.13 (0.57) | 1 | .25 | .30 | .37 | ||||||
| Premeditation (PRE) | 835 | 2.04 (0.48) | 1 | .44 | .31 | |||||||
| Perseverance (PER) | 835 | 1.99 (0.50) | 1 | .21 | ||||||||
| Delinquency (ASB) | 835 | 6.54 (7.03) | 1 | |||||||||
| Australia sample | Male | Female | ||||||||||
| N | M (SD) | N | M (SD) | P | E | N | IMP | NS | HA | RD | ASB | |
| Psychoticism (P) | 2872 | 1.13 (0.56) | 5203 | 0.87 (0.57) | 1 | .15 | −.09 | .21 | .26 | −.20 | −.16 | .15 |
| Extraversion (E) | 2749 | 7.93 (3.92) | 4990 | 7.95 (3.91) | .09 | 1 | −.20 | .32 | .43 | −.56 | .34 | .16 |
| Neuroticism (N) | 2905 | 4.60 (3.41) | 5251 | 5.72 (3.46) | −.04 | −.21 | 1 | .18 | .01 | .62 | .04 | .03 |
| Impulsivity (IMP) | 2967 | 2.66 (1.47) | 5347 | 2.53 (1.51 | .22 | .29 | .17 | 1 | .52 | −.11 | .15 | .22 |
| Novelty seeking (NS) | 2780 | 8.09 (3.82) | 4974 | 7.74 (3.55) | .30 | .41 | .00 | .52 | 1 | −.24 | .17 | .23 |
| Harm avoidance (HA) | 2827 | 6.00 (4.16) | 5137 | 7.93 (4.32) | −.14 | −.55 | .60 | −.11 | −.24 | 1 | −.12 | −.09 |
| Reward dependence (RD) | 2829 | 9.90 (3.25) | 5110 | 11.61 (2.95) | −.19 | .38 | .01 | .14 | .13 | −.18 | 1 | .03 |
| Symptom count (ASB) | 3064 | 1.13 (0.53) | 4699 | 0.64 (0.52) | .15 | .12 | .06 | .20 | .26 | −.02 | .00 | 1 |
Notes. In the Australia sample, correlations for females and males are reported upper and lower off diagonal, respectively, and control for sex-specific linear and quadratic effects of age. In the Texas sample correlations control for linear and quadratic effects of age, sex, age × sex and race. N = number of observations. Means (M) and standard deviations (SD) are reported for non-transformed variables. Partial correlations are reported for transformed variables. Estimates highlighted bold are significant at p < 0.01.