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Table 3.

Correlations of between item total correlation and inter-item scores of parents’ SDQ

Items		Pro-social	Hyperactivity	Emotional	Conduct	Peer problem	Total difficulties scores
Pro-social behaviour
Item 1.	Considerate to other people’s feeling	0.622^**	−0.203^**	−0.109^*	−0.370^**	−0.176^**	−0.275^**
Item 4.	Shares readily with other children	0.565^**	−0.076	−0.097^*	−0.113^**	−0.136^**	−0.143^**
Item 9.	Help if someone is hurt, upset or feeling ill.	0.700^**	−0.172^**	−0.086^*	−0.128^**	−0.058	−0.160^**
Item 17.	Kind to younger children	0.542^**	−0.187^**	−0.102^*	−0.250^**	−0.181^**	−0.242^**
Item 20.	Often volunteers to help others	0.681^**	−0.221^**	−0.207^**	−0.261^**	−0.060	−0.260^**
Hyperactivity
Item 2.	Restless, overactive, cannot stay still for long	−0.108^**	0.672^**	0.271^**	0.296^**	0.257^**	0.548^**
Item 10.	Constantly fidgeting, or squirming	−0.083	0.425^**	0.356^**	0.202^**	0.256^**	0.416^**
Item 15.	Easily distracted, concentration wanders	−0.132^**	0.709^**	0.377^**	0.244^**	0.256^**	0.589^**
Item 21.	Thinks things out before acting	−0.273^**	0.571^**	0.167^**	0.278^**	0.082	0.407^**
Item 25.	Sees task through to end, good attention span	−0.256^**	0.656^**	0.232^**	0.286^**	0.170^**	0.495^**
Emotional
Item 3.	Often complains of headaches, stomach aches, sickness	−0.051	0.133^**	0.543^**	0.151^**	0.138^**	0.337^**
Item 8.	Many worries, often seemed worried	−0.085	0.277^**	0.605^**	0.272^**	0.193^**	0.460^**
Item 13.	Often unhappy, down hearted or tearful	−0.122^**	0.295^**	0.534^**	0.312^**	0.238^**	0.470^**
Item 16.	Nervous or clingy in new situation, easily lose confidence	−0.218^**	0.391^**	0.640^**	0.297^**	0.214^**	0.531^**
Item 24.	Many fears, easily scared	−0.142^**	0.323^**	0.739^**	0.318^**	0.217^**	0.552^**
Conduct
Item 5.	Often has temper tantrums and hot temper	−0.146^**	0.301^**	0.333^**	0.716^**	0.183^**	0.499^**
Item 7.	Generally obedient, usually does what adults request	−0.410^**	0.282^**	0.241^**	0.609^**	0.153^**	0.417^**
Item 12.	Often fights with other childrenor bullies them	−0.155^**	0.189^**	0.153^**	0.496^**	0.175^**	0.319^**
Item 18.	Often lies or cheat	−0.158^**	0.299^**	0.284^**	0.577^**	0.194^**	0.448^**
Item 22.	Steals from home, school or elsewhere	−0.061	0.144^**	0.180^**	0.270^**	0.119^**	0.225^**
Peer Problem
Item 6.	Rather solitary, tends to play alone	−0.108^**	0.171^**	0.213^**	0.157^**	0.475^**	0.320^**
Item 11.	Has at least one good friend	−0.147^**	0.114^*	0.052^**	0.042	0.467^**	0.204^**
Item 14.	Generally liked by other children	−0.385^**	0.270^**	0.231^**	0.305^**	0.470^**	0.418^**
Item 19.	Picked or bullied by other children	−0.070^**	0.300^**	0.290^**	0.214^**	0.463^**	0.415^**
Item 23.	Gets on better with adults than with other children	−0.119^**	0.046^**	0.087^**	0.035^**	0.536^**	0.211^**

Pearson correlation

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P < 0.01

P < 0.01 (2 tailed)