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Published in final edited form as: Qual Life Res. 2015 Sep 30;25(4):823–833. doi: 10.1007/s11136-015-1143-z

Table 4.

Root Expected Mean Square Difference (REMSD) statistics for the sex difference, and the difference between adolescents and young adults, and the estimated latent-variable correlation ρ between the pediatric and adult constructs with its standard error (s.e.).

Domain	Sample	REMSD	REMSD	ρ	s.e. (ρ)
Domain	Sample	Sex	Age^a	ρ	s.e. (ρ)
Depressive Symptoms	SHCN^b	0.128	0.020	0.93	0.01
Depressive Symptoms	Disabilities^c	0.020	0.027	0.94	0.01
Anxiety	SHCN	0.003	0.007	0.89	0.01
Anxiety	Disabilities	0.038	0.015	0.87	0.01
Anger	SHCN	0.004	0.052	0.91	0.01
Anger	Disabilities	0.033	0.027	0.91	0.01

Age categorized by adolescent (14–17 years) and young adult (18–24 years)

SHCN = adolescents and young adults with special health care needs

Disabilities = adolescents and young adults with a physical or cognitive disability