Psychopathology of addiction: May a SCL-90-based five dimensions structure be applied irrespectively of the involved drug?

Table 4 SCL90-based psychopathological factor severity in 2314 drug addicts according to the primary substance of abuse at treatment entry

Variables	Alcohol N = 449	Heroin N = 1195	Cocaine N = 670	Univariate F; df; p	df ^a
Variables	M ± SD	M ± SD	M ± SD	Univariate F; df; p	df ^a
1. Worthlessness-being trapped	1.17 ± 0.7	1.14 ± 0.8	1.11 ± 0.7	0.73; 2; 0.481	0.16
2. Somatic-symptoms	1.02 ± 0.7a	1.00 ± 0.7a	0.88 ± 0.7b	7.21; 2; 0.001	0.52
3. Sensitivity-psychoticism	0.82 ± 0.6	0.77 ± 0.6	0.76 ± 0.6	1.10; 2; 0.330	0.17
4. Panic-anxiety	0.47 ± 0.5a	0.43 ± 0.6a,b	0.38 ± 0.5b	3.72; 2; 0.024	0.38
5. Violence-suicide	0.75 ± 0.6	0.79 ± 0.7	0.80 ± 0.7	0.85; 2; 0.425	−0.16
Centroids	0.191	0.047	−0.211

Wilks Lambda 0.97; Chi-square 55.70; df 10; p < 0.001
Correctly classified: 35.7 %
Each letter denotes a subset of categories whose column proportions do not differ significantly from each other at the 0.05 level
^aDiscriminant function (structured matrix)

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