Table 4.
The prevalence of ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’ RB behaviors by RB clinical status.
| Type of RB behavior | Prevalence | Prevalence | Boys estimated risk ratio | Girls estimated risk ratio | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boys with RB | Boys without RB | Girls with RB | Girls without RB | |||
| Legal behaviors, mother report | 84.5% | 65.8% | 82.9% | 53.5% | 1.28** | 1.55** |
| Legal behaviors, father report | 89.8% | 63.2% | 83.0% | 58.3% | 1.42** | 1.42** |
| Legal behaviors, teacher report | 61.9% | 28.1% | 49.0% | 14.5% | 2.20** | 3.38** |
| Illegal behaviors, mother report | 52.3% | 5.2% | 31.0% | 4.3% | 10.06** | 7.21** |
| Illegal behaviors, father report | 35.8% | 3.7% | 23.6% | 2.6% | 9.68** | 9.08** |
Note. Legal RB behaviors are defined to include breaking rules, lacking guilt, lying or cheating, preferring the company of older peers, and having delinquent friends. Illegal RB behaviors are defined to include setting fires, stealing at home or outside the home, running away, vandalism, and truancy. Teacher reports of illegal behaviors are not included here, as four of the six items are not assessed. Prevalences were computed via estimated marginal means in HLM to adjust for the non-independence of twins within families. Age and ethnicity were added as covariates.
indicate that the risk ratio is significantly greater than zero at p< .05 or p<.01, respectively.