Table 2.
Comorbidity and psychiatric severity in high- and low-absent anxious students
|
Variable |
High absence |
Low absence |
|
|
Significance |
Whole samplea |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| |
high anxiety |
high anxiety |
|
|
|
(N = 865) |
| (N = 21) | (N = 73) | t Value ( df ) | χ2( df ) | |||
| Psychiatric severity |
3.33 (1.20) |
2.63 (1.09) |
2.53 (90) |
|
0.013 |
0.76 (1.35) |
| SDQ behavioural problems |
3.23 (1.64) |
2.23 (1.70) |
2.39 (92) |
|
0.019 |
1.75 (1.46) |
| Personality traits |
4.71 (2.45) |
4.56 (2.40) |
0.252 (90) |
|
0.802 |
1.98 (2.03) |
| SDQ relational problems |
2.81 (1.69) |
3.43 (2.21) |
−1.18 (92) |
|
0.241 |
1.77 (1.58) |
| SMFQ |
12.05 (4.61) |
10.01 (4.55) |
1.80 (92) |
|
0.075 |
4.95 (4.43) |
| Categorical variables |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Drinking alcohol at least every week (% yes) |
9.52 |
25.58 |
|
0.582 (1) |
0.445 |
7.7 |
| Tried cannabis (% yes) |
30 |
12.33 |
|
3.62 (1) |
0.057 |
8.1 |
| Tried other narcotics (% yes) | 25 | 8.57 | 3.91 (1) | 0.048 | 3.3 |
a The whole sample is included for comparison.