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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Aug 21.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychol. 2002 Jul;38(4):591–603. doi: 10.1037//0012-1649.38.4.591

Table 4.

Behavioral Profiles in Childhood and Indices of Adjustment

Adjustment variable Antitype:
Low comply,
low control,
low aggress		 Antitype:
High comply,
low control,
low aggress		 Antitype:
Low comply,
high control,
low aggress		 Type:
High comply,
high control,
low aggress		 Type:
Low comply,
low control,
high aggress		 Antitype:
High comply,
low control,
high aggress		 Antitype:
Low comply,
high control,
high aggress		 Antitype:
High comply,
high control,
high aggress
M SD M SD M SD M SD M SD M SD M SD M SD
Age 8
 Disobedience −0.47b 0.3 −0.30b 0.3 −0.51b 0.2 −0.56b 0.3 0.63a 1.0 −0.18b 0.5 0.06 0.7 −0.29b 0.4
Age 14
 Concentration problems −0.23 0.8 0.11 0.7 −0.16 0.7 −0.35b 0.6 0.41a 0.9 −0.16 0.8 −0.08 0.6 0.06 1.0
 GPA
  Girls 7.14 0.4 7.54 0.8 7.61 0.5 7.78 0.7 7.76 0.8 7.78 0.8 7.95 0.2 8.03 0.4
  Boys 7.10 0.0 6.52 0.6 7.28a 0.8 6.68b 0.6 7.45 0.2 6.55 0.5 6.59 0.7
 Problem behaviors
  Girls 0.03 0.7 −0.39 0.1 −0.34 0.3 −0.36 0.4 −0.17 0.5 −0.31 0.3 −0.52 0.1 −0.25 0.3
  Boys −0.01 0.2 0.84b 1.4 −0.27a 0.4 0.42b 0.7 0.04 0.5 0.41 0.5 −0.13 0.5

Note. All means except those for GPA (grade point average) represent z scores. Across rows, means with different subscripts differ significantly at p < .05 in Tukey’s honestly significant difference comparisons. comply = compliance; control = self-control; aggress = aggression.