The ESI has three questionnaires: a 451 item,100 item, and 85 item. All three examine various dimensions of externalizing behaviors.
ITEM CODING
The questionnaire is scored on a 4-item likert scale (True- somewhat true- somewhat false- False). There are many reverse scored questions. You can find this information in the resource files below.
SCALES
- Alcohol Problems
- Alcohol Use
- Alienation
- Blame Externalization
- Boredom Proneness
- Dependability
- Destructive Aggression
- Drug Problems
- Drug Use
- Empathy
- Excitement Seeking
- Fraud
- Honesty
- Impatient Urgency
- Irresponsibility
- Marijuana Problems
- Marijuana Use
- Physical Aggression
- Planful Control
- Problematic Impulsivity
- Rebelliousness
- Relational Aggression
- Theft
RESOURCE FILES
REFERENCES
Krueger, R. F., Markon, K. E., Patrick, C. J., Benning, S. D., & Kramer, M. D. (2007). Linking antisocial behavior, substance use, and personality: An integrative quantitative model of the adult externalizing spectrum. Journal of abnormal psychology, 116(4), 645.
Nelson, L. D., Patrick, C. J., & Bernat, E. M. (2011). Operationalizing proneness to externalizing psychopathology as a multivariate psychophysiological phenotype. Psychophysiology, 48(1), 64-72.
Venables, N. C., & Patrick, C. J. (2012). Validity of the Externalizing Spectrum Inventory in a criminal offender sample: Relations with disinhibitory psychopathology, personality, and psychopathic features. Psychological assessment, 24(1), 88.