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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 2.
Published in final edited form as: J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2009 Aug;37(6):887–901. doi: 10.1007/s10802-009-9319-z

Table 1.

Mean Scores for Self- and Friend-Reported Internalizing and Externalizing Adjustment and for Positive Friendship Quality and Self-Disclosure for the Entire Sample and by Gender

Total sample
M (SD)
Girls
M (SD)
Boys
M (SD)
t value
Self-reported internalizing 13.36 (8.62) 15.36 (9.10) 10.42 (6.89) 4.22***
Self-reported externalizing 12.12 (7.68) 10.78 (6.76) 14.08 (8.52) 2.05*
Friend-reported internalizing 8.80 (8.21) 9.91 (7.64) 7.15 (8.78) 3.19**
Friend-reported externalizing 10.74 (9.18) 10.24 (7.81) 11.48 (10.90) 0.97
Positive friendship quality 3.60 (0.94) 3.85 (0.84) 3.20 (0.96) 3.96***
Self-disclosure (whole sample) 3.65 (1.20) 4.16 (0.90) 2.90 (1.19) 7.22***
 Grade 5 3.23 (1.28) 3.68 (1.17) 2.64 (1.20) 2.60*
 Grade 8 3.71 (1.30) 4.34 (0.74) 2.35 (1.21) 6.69***
 Grade 11 3.96 (0.88) 4.36 (0.64) 3.49 (0.91) 4.47***
*

p<0.05,

**

p<0.01,

***

p<0.0001