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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 15.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychopathol. 2008 Spring;20(2):509–528. doi: 10.1017/S0954579408000254

Table 5.

Mean levels and differences in internalizing and externalizing problems across childrens lower and higher in effortful control

Lower Effortful Control
Higher Effortful Control
t (187)
M SD M SD
T1 int. 19.71 5.87 17.38 4.25 3.31**
T2 int. 18.33 6.14 15.92 4.56 3.10**
T3 int. 17.29 5.49 15.46 3.96 2.69**
T1 ext. 5.18 3.91 3.71 2.33 3.31**
T2 ext. 4.81 3.54 3.16 1.96 4.00**
T3 ext. 4.34 3.49 2.94 2.22 3.36**
**

p <.01.