Table 1.
Means and standard deviations for boys and girls at each grade on all outcome variables.
| BOYS (n = 135) | GIRLS (n = 143) | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First grade | Second grade | Third grade | First grade | Second grade | Third grade | |||||||
| M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | |
| Social competence (SR)a | 2.79 | 0.81 | 2.91 | 0.78 | 2.83 | 0.64 | 2.93 | 0.71 | 3.11 | 0.62 | 3.26 | 0.55 |
| Social competence (TR)a | 2.36 | 0.65 | 2.43 | 0.52 | 2.12 | 0.69 | 2.92 | 0.58 | 3.24 | 0.36 | 3.57 | 0.33 |
| Social status (PR)a | 2.33 | 0.28 | 2.49 | 0.37 | 2.28 | 0.54 | 2.37 | 0.32 | 2.41 | 0.43 | 2.69 | 0.64 |
| Disruptive (SR)b | 1.43 | 0.84 | 1.51 | 0.73 | 1.63 | 0.59 | 1.21 | 0.51 | 1.29 | 0.57 | 1.14 | 0.42 |
| Disruptive (PR)b | 1.18 | 1.09 | 1.22 | 0.97 | 2.13 | 0.66 | 1.03 | 0.53 | 1.17 | 0.79 | 1.21 | 0.51 |
| Disruptive (TR)c | 3.57 | 0.71 | 3.72 | 0.86 | 4.21 | 1.02 | 1.15 | 0.42 | 1.09 | 0.58 | 1.22 | 0.71 |
| Class clown (SR)b | 1.26 | 0.29 | 1.28 | 0.60 | 1.31 | 0.47 | 1.20 | 0.44 | 1.18 | 0.58 | 1.17 | 0.34 |
| Class clown (PR)a | 2.72 | 0.76 | 2.59 | 0.92 | 3.27 | 1.18 | 2.16 | 0.62 | 1.38 | 0.79 | 1.19 | 1.08 |
| Class clown (TR)a | 3.20 | 0.73 | 3.14 | 0.58 | 3.45 | 0.62 | 1.37 | 0.39 | 1.21 | 0.40 | 1.18 | 0.58 |
SR, self-rated; TR, teacher-rated; PR, peer-rated.
a
4-point scale.
b
3-point scale.
c
5-point scale.