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Table 2.

Mean male and female CSBQ scores for children and adolescents with gender dysphoria and comparison groups

	Typically developing					Gender dysphoric					Autism spectrum disorder
Scales^b	Boys		Girls		Effect sizes Cohen’s d ^a	Boys		Girls		Effect sizes Cohen’s d ^a	Boys		Girls		Effect sizes Cohen’s d ^a
Scales^b	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Effect sizes Cohen’s d ^a	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Effect sizes Cohen’s d ^a	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Effect sizes Cohen’s d ^a
Tuned	4.35	4.28	4.04	3.93	0.08	7.68	5.59	6.93	5.40	0.14	12.08	5.95	11.88	5.90	0.03
Social	2.10	2.96	1.40	2.30	0.26	3.69	4.45	4.38	4.52	− 0.15	8.57	4.78	8.40	5.40	0.03
Orientation	2.17	2.63	1.56	2.26	0.25	3.28	3.61	2.66	3.19	0.18	6.66	3.65	7.74	4.15	− 0.28
Understanding	2.18	2.48	1.90	2.18	0.12	3.27	3.20	3.30	3.09	− 0.01	7.29	3.82	7.82	3.85	− 0.14
Stereotyped	1.25	2.02	0.92	1.67	0.18	2.33	2.29	.94	1.57	0.71	3.54	3.60	3.71	3.68	− 0.05
Change	0.83	1.31	0.69	1.12	0.11	1.24	1.76	1.41	1.70	− 0.10	3.18	1.88	3.32	2.15	− 0.07
CSBQ total	12.89	12.43	10.51	10.34	0.21	21.51	16.74	19.62	14.56	0.12	41.32	16.05	42.86	17.46	− 0.09

CSBQ Children’s Social Behaviour Questionnaire

^aWithin group effect size differences; Cohen’s d: 0.80 or higher is a large effect size, 0.50–0.79 a medium effect size and 0.20–0.49 small. Effect sizes less than 0.20 are negligible (Cohen 1988)

^b Tuned behavior not optimally changed to the situation, Social reduced social interest and contact, Orientation orientation problems, in activity, place of time, Understanding difficulties in understanding social information, Stereotyped stereotyped behavior, Change fear or resistance to changes