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Psychology: Research and Review

Table 2 Performance of SLI children on the CBCL

From: Behavior problems and social competence in Brazilian children with specific language impairment

  

T-scores

Percentile

Statistics (χ 2) b

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Withdrawn/Dep.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**

  1. * Statistical significance at p < .01; ** Statistical significance at p < .001
  2. a Normality range
  3. b One Sample Chi-square Tests (df = 1)