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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2009 Sep 14;69(9):1377–1386. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.08.027

Table 3. Mother’s Ratings of Child Behavior Problems for Normative U.S. and Arab Immigrant (present study) Data.

Normative U.S. Data (N=3210 scores were equally divided between clinical and nonclinical samples) Arab Immigrant Data (n=311 girls; n=324 boys)
Clinical Sample Nonclinical Sample
Scale INT EXT INT EXT INT EXT
Girls M 18.3 20.8 6.8 7.0 11.32 5.33
SD 10.5 13.3 5.7 6.8 6.62 6.03
Boys M 14.5 22.9 6.1 7.8 9.85 6.93
SD 9.1 13.0 5.4 7.3 6.04 7.59

Note: INT = Child Behavior Check List (CBCL) Internalizing scale, EXT = CBCL Externalizing scale