Psychopathology of addiction: Can the SCL90-based five-dimensional structure differentiate Heroin Use Disorder from a non-substance-related addictive disorder such as Gambling Disorder?

Table 1 Psychopathological severity in HUD and GD patients

	HUD patients N = 972	GD patients N = 110	t	p	DF
	M ± sd	M ± sd	t	p	DF
Total SCL-90 severity	89.85 ± 57.3	52.77 ± 39.2	7.03	< 0.001
Global Severity Index	1.00 ± 00.6	0.59 ± 00.4	7.08	< 0.001
PST, number of	48.79 ± 18.5	31.43 ± 17.4	9.84	< 0.001
PSDI severity	1.73 ± 00.5	1.54 ± 00.4	3.87	< 0.001
Psychopathological dimensions
1-Worthlessness-Being trapped	1.22 ± 0.8	0.83 ± 0.7	5.69	< 0.001	− 0.45
2-Somatic Symptoms	1.29 ± 0.8	0.64 ± 0.5	8.55	< 0.001	0.93
3-Sensitivity-Psychoticism	0.83 ± 0.6	0.51 ± 0.4	5.08	< 0.001
4-Panic Anxiety	0.46 ± 0.6	0.21 ± 0.3	4.42	< 0.001
5-Violence-Suicide	0.98 ± 0.7	0.46 ± 0.4	7.12	< 0.001	0.51
Centroids	0.09	− 0.82

HUD Heroin Use Disorder, GD Gambling Disorder, PST positively rated items (number of), PSDI positive symptom distress index, DF Discriminant function
Statistics: Lambda = 0.92; Chi square = 80.49; df = 5; p = < 0.001; 62.8% of original grouped cases correctly classified

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