Table 3.

Youth Self-Report Emotional and behavioural problems - descriptive statistics for syndrome and broadband scales

						ASEBA Normative Sample1
Outcome	Girls			Boys		Girls		Boys
Empirically based syndromes	N	mean (95% CI)	N	mean (95% CI)	p-value2	mean (normal range3)	p-value4	mean (normal range)	p-value4
Anxious/ Depressed	370	7.2 (6.7–7.7)	338	3.9 (3.6–4.3)	< 0.001	5.1 (< 12.0)	< 0.001	3.4 (< 9.0)	0.016
Withdrawn/ Depressed	424	5.4 (5.1–5.8)	372	4.0 (3.7–4.3)	< 0.001	3.1 (< 8.0)	< 0.001	2.7 (< 7.0)	< 0.001
Somatic Complains	384	4.7 (4.3-5.0)	362	2.2 (2.0-2.5)	< 0.001	3.4 (< 8.0)	< 0.001	2.3 (< 7.0)	0.658
Social Problems	420	4.1 (3.8–4.4)	359	3.4 (3.1–3.7)	0.002	3.2 (< 8.0)	< 0.001	2.9 (< 8.0)	0.006
Thought Problems	321	5.1 (4.6–5.7)	256	3.2 (2.8–3.6)	< 0.001	3.7 (< 10.0)	< 0.001	3.1 (< 9.0)	0.715
Attention Problems	429	6.3 (6.0-6.6)	367	5.4 (5.1–5.8)	< 0.001	4.6 (< 10.0)	< 0.001	4.9 (< 10.0)	0.014
Rule-Breaking Behaviour	409	3.8 (3.4–4.2)	347	4.7 (4.3–5.1)	0.001	3.5 (< 9.0)	0.228	3.8 (< 10.0)	< 0.001
Aggressive behaviour	424	9.2 (8.7–9.7)	352	7.3 (6.8–7.8)	< 0.001	6.5 (< 14.0)	< 0.001	6.0 (< 13.0)	< 0.001
Other problems	422	4.7 (4.5-5.0)	362	4.0 (3.8–4.3)	< 0.001	-	-	-	-
Broadband scales
Internalizing	305	16.9 (15.7–18.1)	305	9.8 (9.0-10.6)	< 0.001	11.6 (< 19.0)	< 0.001	8.3 (< 14.0)	0.001
Externalizing	391	13.0 (12.2–13.9)	318	12.0 (11.2–12.8)	0.081	9.9 (< 16.0)	< 0.001	9.8 (< 17.0)	< 0.001

Number of observations, mean score, and p-values for comparisons between girls and boys, as well as to the ASEBA Normative Sample

¹ ASEBA Standard – multicultural normative samples group 2 adopted from the Achenbach and Rescorla (2007)

² Comparison between girls and boys from the study sample

³ Normal range – given by the ASEBA for group 2

⁴ Comparison between ASEBA Normative Sample and the study sample