Table 2.
Psychiatric diagnosis | Violent offenders (N = 63) | Nonviolent offenders (N = 169) | Nonoffenders (N = 350) | Chi square |
---|---|---|---|---|
Posttraumatic stress disorder | 51.61a | 35.50b | 32.86b | 8.08* |
Alcohol abuse and/or dependence | 50.79a | 47.93a | 32.86b | 14.87** |
MDD | 39.68 | 26.63 | 27.71 | 4.24 |
Drug abuse and/or dependence | 38.10a | 31.36a | 21.84b | 10.31** |
Dysthymia | 25.40a | 13.61b | 13.43b | 6.33* |
Subscript letters represent pairwise comparisons of column proportions for a given row. When two groups have different letters (a, b), they are significantly different (p < 0.05) from one another on that characteristic.
p < 0.05, **p < 0.01.
DSM-III-R, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders III-Revised; MDD, major depressive disorder.