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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Child Abuse Negl. 2007 Mar 28;31(3):231–253. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2006.03.011

Table 2.

Descriptive Statistics for Non-Maltreated, Resilient, and Non-Resilient Children on Emotional Problems, Prosocial Behavior, and Reading Ability

Maltreated
Non- Maltreated Resilient Non-Resilient Regression Model Fit Resilient vs. Non-Maltreated Resilient vs. Non-Resilient
Means (SD) F (df) effect size effect size
Emotional problems at 5 5.37 (5.31) 4.76 (4.39) 5.34 (5.49) .56 (2, 1047) .12 .11
Emotional problems at 7 5.14 (5.41) 4.27 (4.63) 6.79 (6.88) 5.24 (2, 1024)** .16 .40**
Prosocial behavior at 5 11.85 (4.89) 12.93 (3.74) 10.25 (4.63) 9.80 (2, 1024)*** .22 .61***
Prosocial behavior at 7 12.80 (4.75) 13.80 (4.93) 11.40 (5.09) 5.74 (2, 1021)*** .21 .48**
Percentages (n) Wald χ2 (df) OR (95% C. I.) (effect size) OR (95% C. I.) (effect size)
Average or above -average reading scores at 7 57.2 (964) 64.5 (44) 49.2 (85) 4.91 (2) 1.38 (.79; 2.35) (.17) 1.88 (1.02; 3.47)* (.35)
***

p ≤ .001,

**

p ≤ .01,

*

p ≤ .05

Note: OR = odds ratio; ORs are transformed to compare (a) resilient versus non-maltreated and (b) resilient versus non-resilient children.

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