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Table 4 Adolescents’ behavioural and emotional profiles (YSR): percentage of subjects with score in the clinical range for each of the scales of the questionnaire

From: High-school students and self-injurious thoughts and behaviours: clues of emotion dysregulation

YSR scales

(%in clinical range)

Negatives

(1050)

SA

(15)

SI

(92)

SH

(162)

SA + SI

(20)

SA + SH

(21)

SI + SH

(52)

SA + SI + SH

(43)

Anxiety/Depression

63/1049 (6.0%)

3 (20%; 0.061)

15 (16%; 0.001)

19 (12%; 0.011)

2 (10%; 0.346)

5 (24%; 0.008)

5 (10%; 0.246)

13 (30%; 0.000)

Withdrawal/Depression

48/1048 (4.6%)

2 (13%; 0.154)

23 (25%; 0.000)

12 (7%; 0.122)

3 (15%%; 0.066)

4 (19%; 0.016)

14 (27%; 0.000)

12 (28%; 0.000)

Somatic complaints

44 (4.2%)

1 (7%; 0.479)

3 (3%; 1.000)

13 (8%; 0.044)

3 (15%; 0.054)

4 (19%; 0.012)

14 (27%; 0.000)

17 (40% 0.000)

Social problems

31/1048 (3.0%)

1 (7%;.370)

16 (17%; 0.000)

10 (6%; 0.057)

0 (0%; 1.000)

7 (33%; 0.000)

8 (15%; 0.000)

11 (26%; 0.000)

Thought problems

29/1047 (2.8%)

1 (7%; 0.351)

9/91 (10%; 0.002)

12 (7%; 0.008)

4 (20%; 0.003)

6 (29%; 0.000)

15 (29%; 0.000)

17 (40%; 0.000)

Attention problems

78 (7.4%)

3 (20%; 0.099)

10 (11%; 0.223)

26 (16%; 0.001)

1 (5%; 1.000)

7 (33%; 0.001)

10 (19%; 0.006)

14 (33%; 0.000)

Rule-breaking behaviour

60/1048 (5.7%)

1 (7%; 0.590)

6 (7%; 0.647)

26 (16%; 0.000)

5 (25%; 0.005)

6 (29%; 0.001)

10 (19%; 0.001)

9 (21%; 0.001)

Aggressive behaviour

63/1048 (6.0%)

2 (13%; 0.232)

12 (13%; 0.015)

32 (20%; 0.000)

2 (10%; 0.347)

8 (38%; 0.000)

13 (25%; 0.000)

14 (33%; 0.000)

Internalizing syndrome

164/1048 (15.7%)

5 (33%; 0.075)

45 (49%; 0.000)

40 (25%; 0.007)

8 (40%; (0.009)

13 (62%; 0.000)

29 (56%; 0.000)

33 (77%; 0.000)

Externalizing syndrome

206/1048 (19.7%)

6 (40%; 0.094)

32 (35%; 0.001)

72 (44%; 0.000)

8 (40%; 0.042)

13 (62%; 0.000)

32 (66%; 0.000)

33 (77%; 0.000)

Total problems

158/1048 (15.1%)

6 (40%; 0.018)

40 (43%; 0.000)

62 (38%; 0.000)

9 (45%; 0.002)

17 (81%; 0.000)

35 (67%; 0.000)

39 (91%; 0.000)

  1. In parenthesis, p-values of differences between each group and the reference group (“Negatives”) (two-tailed Fisher exact test). Total frequencies are reported in first row, unless specified