The associations of cumulative adverse childhood experiences and irritability with mental disorders in detained male adolescent offenders

Table 2 Correlation matrix for psychiatric diagnoses, ACEs, and covariates in detained adolescent offenders

	PTSD	Anxiety disorders	Depressive disorders	Suicidality	SUD	DBD	ADHD	ACE total score^a	Irritability^a	Age^a	Foreign nationality	Low SES
PTSD	1	.029	.392^***	.285^**	.085	.023	.053	.279^**	.150⁺	−.080	.203^*	.031
Anxiety disorders		1	.323^***	.354^***	.167⁺	.123	.221^*	.224^*	.156⁺	.040	−.041	.055
Depressive disorders			1	.480^***	.315^***	.123	.186^*	.338^***	.222^*	.075	.100	.051
Suicidality				1	.188^*	.129	.134	.263^**	.202^*	.076	.002	.051
SUD					1	.333^***	.173^*	.173^*	.237^**	.243^**	−.012	−.063
DBD						1	.347^***	.097	.319^***	−.004	.023	−.045
ADHD							1	.120	.244^**	.016	.131	−.094
ACE total score^a								1	.192^*	−.025	−.014	−.195^*
Irritability^a									1	−.099	−.101	−.166⁺
Age^a										1	.075	−.051
Foreign Nationality											1	.087
Low SES												1

PTSD post traumatic stress disorder, SUD substance use disorder, DBD disruptive behavior disorder, ADHD attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ACE adverse childhood experience, SES socio-economic status
Significance (two sided), ⁺ p < .10, * p < .05, ** p < .01, *** p < .001
^a z-Transformed

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