Attentional variability and avoidance of hostile stimuli decrease aggression in Chinese male juvenile delinquents

Zhao, Ziyi; Yu, Xianglian; Ren, Zhihong; Zhang, Lin; Li, Xu

doi:10.1186/s13034-021-00368-4

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health

Table 2 Mean, standard deviations, t-test, and correlation coefficients in the study

From: Attentional variability and avoidance of hostile stimuli decrease aggression in Chinese male juvenile delinquents

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
1 Age	–	0.06	0.00	0.14	− 0.04	0.05	0.18	− 0.06	− 0.05	0.11	0.05	0.04	− 0.11	0.09	− 0.25^*
2 AQCV	0.03	–	0.85^**	0.79^**	0.85^**	0.77^**	0.65^**	0.05	0.16	− 0.23^*	− 0.04	0.18	− 0.09	0.25^*	− 0.23^*
3 AQCV-PA	0.11	0.70^**	–	0.61^**	0.70^**	0.46^**	0.40^**	0.08	− 0.23^*	− 0.20	− 0.06	0.13	− 0.14	0.20	− 0.28^*
4 AQCV-VA	− 0.09	0.76^**	0.39^**	–	0.62^**	0.55^**	0.45^**	0.08	− 0.05	− 0.13	− 0.13	0.13	− 0.13	0.19	− 0.12
5 AQCV-A	− 0.03	0.73^**	0.34^**	0.54^**	–	0.56^**	0.44^**	0.03	− 0.19	− 0.27^*	− 0.01	0.24^*	− 0.08	0.33^**	− 0.30^**
6 AQCV-H	0.08	0.82^**	0.47^**	0.54^**	0.46^**	–	0.49^**	− 0.03	− 0.05	− 0.01	0.07	0.12	0.07	0.11	− 0.01
7 AQCV-SA	− 0.04	0.67^**	0.26^*	0.48^**	0.47^**	0.44^**	–	0.03	− 0.05	− 0.29^**	− 0.07	0.07	− 0.09	0.13	− 0.16
8 Dot-BS	0.14	0.04	0.09	− 0.09	− 0.02	0.06	0.05	–	− 0.02	− 0.09	0.16	0.50^**	0.16	0.47^**	− 0.21
9 eStroop-BS	0.18	0.07	0.06	0.02	− 0.15	0.18	0.09	− 0.02	–	0.10	0.21	− 0.20	0.19	− 0.17	0.31^**
10 N-RT	0.18	0.18	0.23	0.10	− 0.07	0.22	0.13	0.00	0.18	–	0.17	− 0.25^*	0.22	− 0.35^**	0.43^**
11 Mean-TLBS_toward	0.30^*	0.06	0.06	0.13	0.03	− 0.01	0.03	0.23	0.14	0.26^*	–	0.00	0.80^**	0.03	0.30^**
12 Mean-TLBS_away	− 0.18	− 0.05	0.02	− 0.10	0.05	− 0.09	− 0.08	0.14	− 0.35^**	− 0.48^**	− 0.25^*	–	− 0.07	0.86^**	− 0.62^**
13 Peak-TLBS_toward	0.32^**	0.04	0.08	0.16	− 0.02	− 0.02	− 0.02	0.23	0.09	0.28^*	0.91^**	− 0.21	–	− 0.12	0.57^**
14 Peak-TLBS_away	− 0.15	− 0.07	0.00	− 0.06	0.03	− 0.10	− 0.12	0.14	− 0.30^*	0.54^**	− 0.20	0.93^**	− 0.12	–	− 0.73^**
15 TLBS-V	0.13	0.16	0.03	0.18	0.08	0.13	0.20	0.01	0.30^*	0.60^**	0.48^**	− .80^**	.41^**	− 0.84^**	–
M(SD)-J	17.54 (0.55)	73.33 (19.21)	19.77 (7.11)	12.49 (3.50)	14.04 (4.85)	15.83 (5.08)	11.21 (3.57)	− 19.49 (31.86)	3.03 (22.08)	389.58 (60.90)	75.06 (51.88)	− 95.12 (64.12)	156.17 (116.06)	− 202.36 (148.49)	55.10 (29.24)
M(SD)-C	18.25 (0.73)	69.24 (15.43)	15.64 (4.87)	11.70 (3.13)	12.66 (3.76)	17.97 (5.47)	11.27 (3.50)	− 21.15 (25.98)	7.77 (16.06)	358.24 (63.04)	57.70 (39.96)	− 86.12 (49.59)	112.27 (78.12)	− 172.61 (105.41)	45.37 (22.06)
t	6.76^***	1.40	4.12^***	1.42	1.93	− 2.44^*	− 0.11	0.34	-1.45	3.04^**	2.27^*	− 0.93	2.63^**	− 1.19	2.23^*
Cohen’s d	1.10	0.23	0.68	0.24	0.32	0.41	0.02	0.06	0.25	0.51	0.37	0.16	0.44	0.23	0.38

***p < 0.001; **p < 0.01; *p < 0.05. In the correlation matrix, below the diagonal are the correlation coefficients among the controls; above the diagonal are the correlation coefficients among the juvenile delinquents. AQCV Chinese version of Buss & Perry aggression questionnaire, AQCV-PA AQCV-Physical Aggression, AQCV-VA AQCV-Verbal Aggression, AQCV-A AQCV-Anger, AQCV-H AQCV- Hostility, AQCV-SA AQCV-Self-directed Aggression, Dot-BS traditional bias score derived from the dot-probe task, eStroop-BS bias score derived from emotional Stroop, N-RT the reaction time of neutral trial, Mean-TLBS_toward mean attention bias score towards hostile stimuli, Mean-TLBS_away mean attention bias score away from hostile stimuli, Peak-TLBS_toward peak attention bias score towards hostile stimuli, Peak-TLBS_away peak attention bias score away from hostile stimuli, TLBS-V the temporal variability of attention process, M(SD)-J Mean and standard deviation of juvenile delinquents, M(SD)-C Mean and standard deviation of controls

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