Sentences with phrase «girls than boys reported»

Greater proportions of girls than boys reported a conflicted family environment, having experienced sexual abuse, and a good relationship with their parents.

Not exact matches

That won't surprise anyone who's seen the recent New York City Department of Consumer Affairs report on gender pricing in the city, which found that toys and accessories marketed at girls cost an average of 7 % more than similar products aimed at boys.

A recent report by United Press trust of India (UPI) stated that during the past three years more than 2,500 young boys and girls were sacrificed to goddess Kali in India.

Boys in the study were somewhat more likely to report this behavior than girls; those who identified as lesbian, gay, or bisexual were three times more likely to report this behavior; those who were bullied at school were four to five times more likely, and those bullied online (by others) were seven to twelve times more likely.

The use of muscle - enhancing behaviors among middle and high school boys and girls - including such unhealthy behaviors as using protein powders or shakes, steroids, and other muscle - enhancing substances - is substantially higher than previously reported, a new study finds.1

Two - thirds of the football, girl's soccer, and boys» soccer coaches surveyed reported working at schools that employed an AT, and six in ten reported that the AT attended games most or all of the time, although the percentage was much higher for football than soccer (98.4 % versus 77.8 %).

Also, parents of boys reported concerns about their child's development later than parents of girls.

Women who reported higher levels of marital conflict were more likely in subsequent years to give birth to girls, rather than boys.

«Based on our research criteria, parents report that the girls in our study with autism seem to have a more difficult time with day - to - day skills than the boys,» says Allison Ratto, Ph.D., lead author of the study and a clinical psychologist within the Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders at Children's National.

On parent - reporting measures, girls with autism seem to struggle more than boys with performing routine tasks like getting up and dressed or making small talk, even when the study group is normalized to meet similar basic clinical diagnostic criteria across sexes.

Or, maybe the media doesn't want to report that girls do just as well or better than boys in math.

Boys were more likely than girls to report playing for more than three hours a day (35.3 percent vs. 26.6 percent).

Girls were more than twice as likely to report being a victim of cyberbullying than boys (22.1 percent vs. 10.8 percent).

In sixth grade, girls in both the European French and North African French groups reported lower levels of gender typicality and felt pressure than boys; contrary to expectations, the two ethnic groups did not differ in this respect at the beginning of middle school.

«Most injuries occurred in boys and older children, though approximately 20 percent occurred in girls, which is higher than previously reported.»

, In the UK, the reported incidence of JDM is two to three cases per million children younger than 16 years old, with a median age at onset of 6.8 years; JDM is more common in girls than boys, by a ratio of approximately 2.3:1.

Recent estimates suggest that as many as 1.9 million children younger than 18 years have a sport - or recreation - related concussion each year in the United States.1 This injury is biomechanically induced, with symptoms resulting from neuronal dysfunction due to functional and neurometabolic alterations rather than gross structural abnormalities.2 Compared with boys involved in similar activities, girls experience higher rates of sport - related concussion,3 - 7 report more severe symptoms,8 - 11 demonstrate worse cognitive impairment,8 - 10, 12 and take longer to recover.11 The neural mechanisms behind these postconcussion sex differences are poorly understood but have been attributed to differences in neuroanatomy and physiology, 13 cerebral blood flow, 14 and the female sex hormones estrogen and progesterone.15 - 17

A majority of the teens reported consuming sweet drinks: More than 60 % of boys and 50 % of girls drank at least one soda, sports drink, or other sugary beverage per day.

The report quizzed more than 8,500 parents, teachers and young people and found that 52 per cent of parents and 57 per cent of teachers have admitted to making subconscious stereotypes in regards to boys and and girls taking STEM subjects.

For example, girls are more likely than boys to report that they are afraid to ask questions in math, science, and social studies.

Of the more than 10,000 12 - to 18 - year - olds studied as part of Harvard Medical School's ongoing Growing Up Today survey, 47 percent of boys and 36 percent of girls reported...

Among parents of the kindergarten class that entered in fall 2010, 6.2 percent reported that they delayed their child's school entry by a year, and the share was slightly higher for boys (7.2 percent) than for girls (5.2 percent, see Figure 1a).

Dr. B. Lynn Ware, president & CEO of Integral Talent Systems, reported in Corporate Universities: Lessons in Building a World - class Work Force that retention and absorption levels through gamification are ten times higher than through traditional learning techniques or computer - based learning.The Boy and Girl Scouts of America have effectively used gamification techniques for years.

Girls in elementary school are still perceived more favorably, disciplined less harshly, and graded more generously than boys, but boys receive more attention, encouragement, and constructive criticism, ac - cording to a new report by the Project on Equal Educational Rights of the National Organization for Women.

While the more than 4 - to - 1 ratio of boys to girls diagnosed with autism applies in MPS, the district reports differences in how autistic boys and girls interact socially and what they're interested in, affirming the new research.

Even though more women and girls are getting college degrees and scoring in the top ranks on national math tests than was the case in the 1970s, their academic gains have not come at the expense of boys, says a report by the American Association of University Women.

But the report also warned that boys and girls in education systems that separate students into different types of schools tended to have «lower expectations for further education» than those in systems with a comprehensive approach to schooling.

Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro conducted a longitudinal study of almost 1,000 elementary school students and reported that teachers had higher expectations for the reading achievement of girls than boys.

Girls reported being more likely to help a victim of bullying than boys did and more often said that bullying is wrong.

Last week we reported that many fewer girls are studying vocational subjects than boys.

Findings show that, generally, girls self - report as being more engaged than boys, White students and Asian American students are more engaged than other races across all three dimensions, students in advanced classes are more engaged, non-low-income students report more engagement, and students who begin and stay at their high school starting in the ninth grade are higher across the dimensions of engagement.

The report also notes that the gender gap in reading frequency and attitudes towards reading is narrowing; however, the narrowing of the gap is driven more by decreases among girls than it is by increases in boys.

Girls reported more disclosure, companionship, and conflict with their pet than boys.

«While previous research has often found that boys report stronger relationships with their pets than girls do, we actually found the opposite.

Boys and girls were equally satisfied with their pets, but girls reported more disclosure, companionship, and conflict with their pet than bBoys and girls were equally satisfied with their pets, but girls reported more disclosure, companionship, and conflict with their pet than boysboys.

«Results showed that girls reported more disclosure, companionship, and conflict with their pet than did boys, while dog owners reported greater satisfaction and companionship with their pet than did owners of other pets,» the authors wrote in the study.

While boys and girls were equally satisfied with their pets, girls reported more disclosure, companionship, and conflict with their pet than did boys, perhaps indicating that girls may interact with their pets in more nuanced ways.»

First, with respect to the percentage of teenagers who have sent or posted nude or semi-nude pictures or video of themselves, 20 percent of those surveyed reported that they engaged in such activity, with slightly more teenage girls (22 percent) than boys (18 percent) admitting doing so.

Less than 1.3 % of children reported witnessing violence without also experiencing violence themselves and 26 % of boys and girls have both witnessed IPV and experienced violence from any perpetrator.

The group of girls having parents working away from home also reported a higher score of prosocial behavior than those of boy group with the average score of 7.36 and 6.91, respectively, t (448) = 2.527, p = 0.01).

Research within clinical populations consistently finds that girls are more often abused than boys, although research focused on the broader population of community youth has not shown such gender differences in rates of physical maltreatment.72 Female offenders typically are abused before their first offense.73 Among girls in the California juvenile justice system, 92 percent report some form of emotional, physical, or sexual abuse.74 Self - reported victimization rates among boys in the juvenile justice system are considerably lower, though boys may be more likely than girls to underreport certain forms of abuse.75 Some studies report abuse rates for males between 25 percent and 31 percent, while others report rates of 10 percent for sexual abuse and 47 percent for physical abuse.76 Closer comparison reveals that delinquent males and females tend to report different types of traumas as well.

Girls reported significantly higher rates of SM than did boys (64 vs. 36 %, respectively).

Boys report slightly lower supportiveness from fathers than do girls.

Boys report slightly lower supportiveness from fathers than girls.

However, the concurrent correlates of CD symptoms appear to differ by gender, CD symptoms being less often associated with ADHD symptoms (Moffitt et al. 2001) and more often associated with depression in girls than in boys (Costello et al. 2003; but see: Maughan et al. 2004, reporting opposite results).

Some studies found that boys are more alienated than girls (Gullone and Robinson 2005; Pace et al. 2011), while most studies reported no significant gender differences (e.g., Guarnieri et al. 2010; Nada Raja et al. 1992; Nickerson and Nagle 2005; Ruijten et al. 2011).

Boys reported significantly higher levels of physical victimization, physical aggression, and relational aggression than girls.

Results revealed that in their best friendship, girls reported higher levels of closeness, help, and security than did boys, and boys reported higher levels of conflict than did girls.

As irritability is more frequently reported in depressed girls than in boys, we expected to find a stronger relationship for girls than for boys.

Consistent with the literature on youth depression (Marcotte, Fortin, Potvin, & Papillon, 2002), reports of stress and depressive symptoms were more common among girls than boys, and alcohol and marijuana use was more common among those who reported depressive symptoms, relative to those who did not report depressive symptoms.