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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 14.
Published in final edited form as: J Sch Psychol. 1998 Apr 1;36(1):45–58. doi: 10.1016/s0022-4405(97)00049-6

Table 1.

Rates of Child Behavior Problems at Home and at School for Children Living in Rural versus Urban Settings

Mean Values
 F-Values
Problems Rural Urban Site (df 1,308) SES Ethnicity Gender
Home Problems
 Externalizing 53.64 (8.03) 54.45 (10.92) .04 15.74*** .13 4.07*
 Internalizing 53.25 (8.74) 51.34 (9.69) 1.40 15.56*** 1.78 8.73**
School Problems
 Externalizing 50.70 (10.26) 58.45 (11.88) 6.51** 9.96** 7.92** 1.50
 Internalizing 48.84 (10.78) 52.22 (10.29) 1.23 12.03*** 1.17 .01

Note. Standard deviations are presented in parentheses.

SES = socioeconomic status.

*

p = .05

**

p = .01.

***

p = .001.