From Incarceration to Community Care: Structured Assessment of Correctional Adaptation

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Table 1

Descriptive Statistics for Previously Arrested Versus Never Arrested Participants

Variable	Previously Arrested (n = 124)	Never Arrested (n = 25)
Mean age, y	38.74	36.64
Education, y	10.30	11.23
Race, %
Black	63.7	52
Hispanic	25.8	28
White	8.9	20
Other	1.6	0
Diagnosis, Axis I, %
Schizoaffective disorder	35.5	52
Schizophrenia, paranoid type	27.6	24
Schizophrenia, undifferentiated type	17.9	16
Mood disorder	8.9	4
Other psychotic disorder	8.9	4
Other disorder	.8	0
Diagnosis, Axis II, %
None	66.7	100
Antisocial personality disorder	24.4	0
Other personality disorder	8.9	0
Diagnosis, substance abuse, %
Yes	56.2	30.4
No	43.8	69.6

Table 2

Interrater Reliability, Internal Consistency, and Concurrent Validity of SACA Items and Total Score

SACA Item	Mean (SD)	ICC (95% CI)	Item-Total r	Arrested (Yes/No)^*	DisciplinaryTickets^†^§	TimeIncarcerated^†^§
1. Respect	0.71 (.74)	0.64 (.33–.81)	0.43	0.21^‖	0.27^‖	0.18
2. Trust	1.08 (0.76)	0.79 (0.62–0.89)	0.37	0.17^‖	0.07	0.11
3. Isolation	0.88 (0.80)	0.59 (0.24–78)	0.18	0.07	−0.001	−0.05
4. Manipulation	0.32 (0.61)	0.62 (0.29–0.80)	0.21	0.18&^Verbar;	0.11	−0.14
5. Snitching	0.20 (0.49)	0.65 (0.34–0.81)	−0.01	−0.004	0.10	0.01
6. Stonewalling	0.84 (0.83)	0.91 (0.83–0.95)	0.36	0.15	−0.03	0.09
7. Vigilance	0.81 (0.82)	0.77 (0.56–0.88)	0.34	0.14	0.13	0.07
8. Bid mentality	0.61 (0.71)	0.66 (0.36–0.82)	0.31	0.24^¶	0.25^¶	0.09
9. Posturing	0.26 (0.54)	0.66 (0.35–0.82)	0.38	0.12	0.35^¶	0.14
10. Wolfing	0.39 (0.71)	0.95 (0.90–0.97)	0.40	0.07	0.19^‖	−0.01
11. Cliquing	0.10 (0.32)	0.85 (0.71–0.92)	0.20	0.03	0.12	0.05
12. Medication compliance	0.43 (0.75)	0.55 (0.15–0.76)	0.28	−0.005	0.19^¶	−0.07
13. Do own time	1.02 (0.84)	0.72 (0.47–0.85)	0.28	0.14	−0.01	0.23^‖
14. Stigma	0.62 (0.79)	0.77 (0.57–0.88)	0.31	0.06	0.27^¶	0.07
15. Malingering	0.09 (0.35)	0.77 (0.56–0.87)	0.36	0.11	0.17^‖	−0.01
16. Dissembling	0.18 (0.48)	0.51 (0.09–0.74)	0.36	0.05	0.07	−0.06
SACA total score	8.38 (4.5)	0.85 (0.71–0.92)	0.70^a	0.25^¶	0.32^¶	0.15

ICC, intraclass correlation coefficient; CI, confidence interval; time incarcerated, cumulative time sentenced to incarceration; disciplinary tickets, self reported frequency category of number of disciplinary tickets received for rule infractions in prison.
* Point biserial correlation coefficient.
† n = 124.
‡ Spearman correlation coefficient.
§ Pearson correlation coefficient.
‖ p < .05.
¶ p < .01.

Table 3

Bivariate Correlations of the SACA-12 With Select Variables