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Published in final edited form as: J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2013 Mar 12;54(8):911–919. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.12066

Table 3.

Chi-square tests comparing previously malnourished (MAL; N=77) and comparison (CON; N=57) participants with NEO-PI-R domain T-scores in the Low (<44), Average (45–55) or High (> 56) range.

	Low, N (%)		Average, N (%)		High, N (%)		χ²
	Malnourished	Controls	Malnourished	Controls	Malnourished	Controls
Neuroticism	15 (19.5)	25 (43.9)	36 (46.8)	28 (49.1)	26 (33.8)	4 (7.0)	17.0^***
Extraversion	41 (53.3)	10 (17.5)	32 (41.6)	37 (64.9)	4 (5.2)	10 (17.5)	19.2^***
Openness	49 (64.6)	26 (45.6)	26 (33.8)	23(40.4)	2 (2.6)	8 (14.0)	8.0^*
Agreeableness	16 (20.8)	11 (19.3)	31 (40.3)	14 (24.6)	30 (39.0)	32 (56.1)	4.5
Conscientiousness	27 (35.1)	7 (12.3)	42 (54.6)	37 (64.9)	8 (10.4)	13 (22.8)	10.5^**

p < 0.05;

^**

p < 0.01;

^***

p < 0.001