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Table 1 Descriptive statistics split by respondents

From: Emotion regulation and its relation to symptoms of anxiety and depression in children aged 8–12 years: does parental gender play a differentiating role?

 

Child n = 602 (1)

Mother n = 537 (2)

Father n = 289 (3)

Groups (t-test)

M (SD)

M (SD)

M (SD)

 

Child age

10.07 (0.90)

   

Child gender

Girls 58.10%

  

Girls>Boys***

MASC (0–117)

63.43 (13.78)

43.39 (15.37)

41.36 (14.67)

1 > 2,3***

SMFQ (0–26)

9.92 (4.91)

5.64 (4.86)

5.08 (4.58)

1 > 2,3***, 2 > 3**

ERC L/N (0–45)

 

11.26 (5.96)

11.37 (5.82)

n.s.

ERC ER (0–24)

 

18.99 (3.30)

18.33 (3.26)

2 > 3**

HSCL (0–30)

 

4.07 (4.36)

3.23 (3.71)

 

EASQ (0–44)

 

1.60 (1.62)

1.43 (1.44)

 

Economy (5 point scale. 1 = 350,000 NOK, 5 = over 1 million NOK)

 

3.71 (1.19)

3.71 (1.19)

 

Education (5 point scale, 1 = ten years of primary school, 5 = four years or more on college/university)

 

3.93 (0.98)

3.81 (1.07)

 
  1. All scores are sum-scores. Economy is measured per family. ERC L/N high score indicates poor regulation skills. ERC ER high score indicates good regulation skills
  2. MASC Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children, SMFQ Mood and Feeling Questionnaire – short form, ERC Emotion regulation checklist, HSCL The Hopkin‘s symptom check list, EASQ Early Adolescence Stress Questionnaire
  3. *p = < 0.05. **p = < 0.01. ***p = < 0.001