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Table 2 Percentage agreement between parents and children (boys/girls) in total difficulties scores (N: 4,101/4,096) and in total impact scores (N: 4,007/4,011)

From: Understanding discrepancies in parent-child reporting of emotional and behavioural problems: Effects of relational and socio-demographic factors

  

Total difficulties score parents (boys/girls)

Total %

  

Low risk

< Percentile 80

Borderline

Percentiles 80-90

High risk

> Percentile 90

  

Total difficulties score children

Low risk: < P80

74.6

(72.4/76.9)^

5.4

(6.1/4.7)

5.3

(6.6/3.9)^^

85.3

(85.1/85.4)

 

Borderline: P80-P90

5.5

(5.1/5.8)

1.3

(1.3/1.4)^

1.5

(1.8/1.3)

8.3

( 8.1/8.4)

 

High risk: > P90

3.3

(3.5/3.2) ^^

1.0

(1.0/1.1)

2.1

(2.4/1.8)^

6.4

( 6.8/6.1)

Total %

 

83.4

(80.9/85.9)

7.8

(8.3/7.2)

8.8

(10.8/6.9)

100%

 
  

Total Impact score for parents (boys/girls)

  
  

Low risk (score = 0)

Borderline (score = 1)

High risk (score ≥2)

Total %

Impact score children

Low risk ( = 0)

78.0

(76.3/79.7)^

3.5

(4.2/2.7)

5.9

(7.8/4.1)^^

87.4

(88.3/86.5)

 

Borderline risk ( = 1)

4.2

(3.8/4.6)

0.5

(0.6/0.4)^

1.0

(1.2/0.7)

5.7

(5.6/5.8)

 

High risk (≥2)

4.7

(3.9/5.4)^^

0.6

(0.5/0.7)

1.6

(1.6/1.6 )^

6.9

(6.1/7.7)

Total %

 

86.9

(84.0/89.8)

4.6

(5.3/3.8)

8.6

(10.7/6.4)

100%

 
  1. p < .001; ^ parents and children in equivalent groups; ^^ parents and children in highly discrepant groups