Table 4.
Descriptive Statistics for Specific Categories of Behavioral and Emotional Problems in Prisoners’ Children and Controls, Measured with the Youth Self-Report (YSR).
| Prisoners’ Children | Children from Complete Families with Dysfunctions (Control Group I) |
Children from Families without Dysfunctions (Control Group II) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | ||||||||
| M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | ||
| YSR | Withdrawn | 4.11 | 3.45 | 5.2 | 2.51 | 3.94 | 2.66 | 4.09 | 2.68 | 2.16 | 2.28 | 2.0 | 2.12 |
| Somatic Complaints | 2.51 | 2.65 | 3.74 | 3.35 | 2.91 | 2.4 | 3.61 | 2.78 | 1.13 | 1.28 | 1.86 | 2.03 | |
| Anxious/Depressed | 7.56 | 6.22 | 10.4 | 6.23 | 6.44 | 5.76 | 9.07 | 6.33 | 2.35 | 2.68 | 4.01 | 4.06 | |
| Social Problems | 3.97 | 3.42 | 3.74 | 2.69 | 3.09 | 3.15 | 2.41 | 2.25 | 1.71 | 1.77 | 1.61 | 1.72 | |
| Thought Problems | 1.92 | 1.90 | 2.17 | 2.36 | 1.84 | 2.85 | 1.91 | 1.89 | 0.87 | 1.31 | 0.88 | 1.33 | |
| Attention Problems | 8.19 | 4.27 | 8.2 | 3.91 | 5.69 | 3.63 | 5.59 | 2.89 | 3.22 | 2.43 | 3.18 | 2.38 | |
| Delinquent Behavior | 6.38 | 4.92 | 7.31 | 6.54 | 4.81 | 3.18 | 3.59 | 2.27 | 1.84 | 2.32 | 1.68 | 1.59 | |
| Aggressive Behavior | 15.11 | 10.18 | 14.48 | 8.92 | 10.44 | 5.86 | 9.11 | 5.44 | 4.61 | 3.95 | 5.16 | 3.94 | |
| Internalizing Problems | 13.62 | 9.65 | 18.43 | 9.14 | 12.91 | 9.14 | 16.2 | 9.58 | 5.51 | 5.26 | 7.70 | 6.67 | |
| Externalizing Problems | 21.48 | 14.45 | 21.8 | 14.84 | 15.25 | 8.69 | 12.7 | 7.11 | 6.45 | 5.88 | 6.85 | 5.07 | |
| Total Behavior Problems | 53.94 | 32.52 | 60.48 | 32.77 | 43.59 | 26.75 | 44.25 | 22.85 | 20.61 | 14.55 | 22.77 | 16.31 | |