The next step in the analyses was to evaluate whether the order in which the first 21 problems that had ages of onset differed across subgroups as evaluated by the Rho statistic. A comparison of the antisocial symptoms and their occurrence in time was made between: male and female participants, the three racial groups and the two diagnostic categories. As seen in Table 3, a high level of similarity was observed in the sequence of the progression of antisocial problems between men and women (Spearman’s rho= .978, p< .0001). A high level of similarity was also observed between the three racial groups, using pairwise comparisons between each group, in the sequence of the progression of antisocial life problems (Spearman’s rho= .925 - .956; p< 0.0001). These analyses were also conducted in order to determine if the clinical course differed based on diagnostic category. A similar clinical course was seen when those with AABS were compared to those with ASPD (Spearman’s rho= 0.935; p< 0.0001).
