Psychology: Research and Review
From: Behavior problems and social competence in Brazilian children with specific language impairment
T-scores | Percentile | Statistics (χ 2) b | ||||||
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Cutoff a | Mean | SD | Cutoff a | Mean | SD | |||
Behavior subscales | Anxiety/Dep. | <65 | 59.04 | 7.50 | <93 | 76.13 | 17.95 | 11.95* |
Withdrawn/Dep. | <65 | 60.63 | 8.47 | <93 | 78.79 | 19.31 | 34.30** | |
Somatic | <65 | 55.21 | 7.10 | <93 | 65.42 | 17.49 | 1.12 | |
Social | <65 | 62.00 | 5.47 | <93 | 85.54 | 11.99 | 44.31** | |
Thought | <65 | 58.04 | 8.59 | <93 | 71.83 | 19.39 | 18.12* | |
Attention | <65 | 61.00 | 7.19 | <93 | 81.54 | 13.78 | 11.95* | |
Rule Breaker | <65 | 56.42 | 5.68 | <93 | 70.92 | 15.95 | 0.07 | |
Aggressive | <65 | 58.71 | 6.44 | <93 | 76.71 | 16.65 | 11.95* | |
Behavior scales | Internalizing | <60 | 58.04 | 10.56 | <84 | 71.63 | 28.16 | 20.64** |
Externalizing | <60 | 57.33 | 7.10 | <84 | 72.58 | 20.38 | 8.25* | |
Total behavior problems | <60 | 60.04 | 8.76 | <84 | 77.21 | 21.72 | 20.64** | |
Competence subscales | Activities | >35 | 36.08 | 9.27 | >7 | 15.46 | 20.55 | 113.56** |
Social | >35 | 40.96 | 7.91 | >7 | 24.33 | 19.01 | 18.12* | |
School | >35 | 34.52 | 9.24 | >7 | 13.29 | 18.03 | 81.11** | |
Competence scale | Total social competence | >40 | 32.76 | 6.66 | >16 | 7.67 | 11.65 | 98.10** |