TABLE 10.

Spearman’s rho correlations between the dependent and independent variables in underachievers and children with behavioral problems in study 2.

	2.	3.	4.	5.	6.
Self-perceived EFs N	0.25*** 198	0.32*** 198	0.28*** 175	0.24** 195	0.04 214
Underachievement N		0.28*** 218	0.24* 171	0.27*** 215	−0.08 218
Behavioral problems N			0.20** 171	0.08 215	0.22** 218
CITO final achievement test N				0.54*** 168	−0.01 184
LPE N					0.07 215
Sex (0 = boy, 1 = girl) N

Underachievement and behavioral problems were scored on a 5-point scale with 1 = totally true and 5 = totally not true; higher achievement on the CITO Final Achievement Test indicates better performance; *p ≤ 0.05, **p ≤ 0.01, ***p ≤ 0.001.