Table 2.

Differences in social-emotional outcomes between low-risk preterm and full-term young adults

	Low-risk preterm n = 33 mean ± SD	Full-term n = 29 mean ± SD	F-snedecor statistic (p)	${\eta }_p^2$
Social-emotional outcomes (adjusted for age and self-SES)
Happé’s Strange Stories Test	6.59 ± 1.37	6.71 ± 1.27	0.90 (0.77)	0.00
MJT	13.60 ± 7.81	16.37 ± 9.67	1.27 (0.27)	0.02
Kirby DDT	0.66 ± 0.26	0.71 ± 0.24	0.43 (0.52)	0.01
Adult Self Report (ASR)
Anxious depressed	9.74 ± 6.12	9.19 ± 3.94	0.14 (0.71)	0.00
Withdrawn	2.77 ± 2.97	3.05 ± 2.14	0.15 (0.70)	0.00
Somatic complaints	3.18 ± 3.19	2.39 ± 2.80	0.86 (0.36)	0.02
Though problems	2.08 ± 1.82	2.26 ± 1.88	0.12 (0.73)	0.00
Attention problems	6.36 ± 4.60	7.93 ± 3.90	1.79 (0.19)	0.03
Aggressive behavior	4.32 ± 3.39	5.18 ± 4.33	0.63 (0.43)	0.01
Rule-breaking behavior	2.07 ± 2.10	2.23 ± 2.84	0.05 (0.82)	0.00
Intrusive behavior	1.95 ± 1.64	1.91 ± 1.89	0.01 (0.94)	0.00
Internalizing problems	15.69 ± 10.77	14.67 ± 7.35	0.15 (0.70)	0.00
Externalizing problems	8.36 ± 5.67	9.49 ± 7.07	0.41 (0.53)	0.01
Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ)
Cognitive reappraisal	30.02 ± 5.96	28.99 ± 4.68	0.48 (0.49)	0.01
Expressive suppression	12.39 ± 4.84	14.28 ± 4.77	1.96 (0.17)	0.03
Composite score (adjusted for age and self-SES)
Social-emotional outcomes	0.04 ± 0.53	−0.04 ± 0.50	0.00 (0.95)	0.00

Note: SD standard deviation, SES socioeconomic status, MJT moral judgement test, DDT delay-discounting task, ${\eta }_p^2$ partial eta squared