Table 5.
Mean Differences for Subjects with both Anxious/Depressed and Withdrawn Symptoms in the Borderline/Clinical Referral Range as Compared to Subjects Showing No Borderline/Clinical Anxious/Depressed or Withdrawn Symptoms on Cognitive and Academic Measures
| Dependent Cognitive and Academic Measures1 | Anxious/Depressed and Withdrawn N=26 |
Non-Anxious/Depressed and Withdrawn N=257+ |
p-Value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | ||
| WASI FSIQ | 99.0 | 12.7 | 108.0 | 12.6 | 0.00** |
| WASI Verbal IQ | 100.0 | 18.8 | 109.8 | 19.4 | 0.01** |
| WASI Performance IQ | 97.0 | 14.3 | 106.0 | 17.5 | 0.01** |
| WASI Vocabulary | 50.3 | 10.7 | 55.1 | 8.20 | 0.00** |
| WASI Similarities | 49.6 | 10.1 | 55.7 | 8.90 | 0.00** |
| WASI Block Design | 48.0 | 8.80 | 52.9 | 9.61 | 0.02* |
| WASI Matrix Reasoning | 49.0 | 11.0 | 53.6 | 9.71 | 0.03* |
| WISC-III Coding | 10.5 | 2.70 | 11.1 | 2.90 | 0.32 |
| WISC-III Symbol Search | 10.6 | 2.63 | 12.7 | 3.04 | 0.00** |
| WISC-III Digit Span | 8.62 | 2.93 | 10.2 | 2.89 | 0.01** |
| Animal Fluency | 0.56 | 1.02 | 0.89 | 1.34 | 0.24 |
| Trail Making Part A | 0.07 | 0.75 | 0.50 | 1.02 | 0.04* |
| Trail Making Part B | 0.11 | 0.89 | 0.48 | 0.91 | 0.00** |
| Purdue Pegboard Dominant | −1.22 | 1.17 | −0.61 | 1.02 | 0.00** |
| Purdue Pegboard Non-dominant | −0.94 | 1.03 | −0.57 | 1.07 | 0.09 |
| Purdue Pegboard Both | −0.76 | 1.05 | −0.60 | 1.07 | 0.48 |
| CAVLT-2 Level of Learning | 100.8 | 14.6 | 106.0 | 14.3 | 0.08 |
| CAVLT-2 Interference | 94.8 | 16.8 | 100.3 | 15.9 | 0.09 |
| CAVLT-2 Immediate Recall | 101.2 | 13.1 | 104.9 | 16.5 | 0.26 |
| CAVLT-2 Delayed Recall | 97.7 | 15.0 | 104.3 | 15.3 | 0.04* |
| WJ-R Letter-Word Identification | 101.4 | 14.7 | 108.4 | 15.9 | 0.03* |
| WJ-R Applied Problems | 101.4 | 14.8 | 112.3 | 14.4 | 0.00** |
| WJ-R Dictation | 93.6 | 12.7 | 98.2 | 12.2 | 0.07 |
P-value* = < 0.05,** = < 0.01.
Total N < 335 because participants with T Scores ≥ 60 on only Anxious/Depressed or Withdrawn CBCL scales were excluded.
Description of scoring for each cognitive and academic measure is given in the legend for Table 2 and in the text of the Methods.