Table 4.
Differences in DSM-Oriented Subscale of CBCL broad-band between male and female children with autism spectrum disorder without impairment of the non-verbal IQ.
| Psychiatric comorbidities | Male | Female |
F-values or X2 |
p-value |
Effect size (OR) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Affective problems | A | 59.00 (9.03) | 57.01 (7.39) | 3.11 | 0.07 | – |
| B | 25.2 | 18.7 | 1.33 | 0.24 | – | |
| Anxiety problems | A | 58.26 (8.84) | 54.92 (6.81) | 9.60 | 0.02 | 0.04 |
| B | 26.2 | 9.3 | 10.36 | 0.001 |
Φ = 0.2 OR = 3.43 |
|
| Attention deficit problems | A | 57.16 (6.56) | 56.91 (7.25) | 0.07 | 0.79 | – |
| B | 15.00 | 17.8 | 0.30 | 0.57 | – | |
| Oppositional problems | A | 54.34 (6.04) | 53.62 (5.47) | 0.83 | 0.36 | – |
| B | 7.5 | 5.6 | 0.30 | 0.58 | – |
Significant comparisons are highlighted in italics.
A, mean and SD; B, number of subjects in the borderline/clinical range expressed as a percentage of male or female subjects.