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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 2.

Patterns of Home Only, School Only, or Cross-Situational Externalizing Problems for Children in Rural and Urban Settings

Pattern of Externalizing Problems
Site Home-Only School-Only Home-School
Rural (31) 48% (15) 29% (9) 23% (7)
Urban (128) 18% (23) 48% (62) 34% (43)

Note. This table includes children who showed elevated rates of externalizing problems in one or both settings—31 of the 89 children in the rural sample (35%) and 128 of the 221 children in the urban sample (58%). Number of cases is shown in parentheses. Percentages indicate the proportion of the children with problems at each site who show the specified problem pattern.