Table 2.
Disparities of social-emotional development on participant’s characteristics and parents’ concerns about eating or sleeping problems.
| Social-Emotional development n (%) | χ 2 | p | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Below cut-off point (n = 779) | Above cut-off point (n = 218) | |||
| Characteristics | ||||
| Gender | 5.385 | 0.020 | ||
| Boys | 399 (75.3) | 131 (24.7) | ||
| Girls | 380 (81.4) | 87 (18.6) | ||
| Age (months) | 5.676 | 0.059 | ||
| 36 | 20 (71.4) | 8 (28.6) | ||
| 48 | 201 (73.6) | 72 (26.4) | ||
| 60 | 558 (80.2) | 138 (19.8) | ||
| Birth order | 0.406 | 0.524 | ||
| First-born | 540 (77.6) | 156 (22.4) | ||
| Second-born and above | 239 (79.4) | 62 (20.6) | ||
| Caregiving mode | 12.504 | 0.002 | ||
| Grandparents | 58 (75.3) | 19 (24.7) | ||
| Parents and others | 393 (74.3) | 136 (25.7) | ||
| Parents | 328 (83.9) | 63 (16.1) | ||
| Variable | ||||
| Parents’ concerns about eating or sleeping problem | 16.785 | 0.001 | ||
| None | 588 (81.2) | 136 (18.8) | ||
| Only eating problem | 137 (70.3) | 58 (29.7) | ||
| Only sleeping problem | 31 (75.6) | 10 (24.4) | ||
| Co-occurrence of eating and sleeping problems | 23 (62.2) | 14 (37.8) | ||