Why do you think the impacts for boys were more
significant than those for girls?
Not exact matches
WHEREAS, women make up 50 % of the population in Santa Clara County but face
significant economic disparities, with an average pay difference that is larger
than the national wage gap of $.72
for a man's dollar, with women holding advanced degrees earning roughly $ 40,000 less
than their male counterparts, and 11 % of the County's female population living in poverty and approximately 33 % of the homeless population being women and
girls, and
While both boys and
girls showed increases in TOSRA scores over time, only the increases
for boys were
significant: average increase over time was slightly greater
than one half standard deviation.
However, considering each aspect we found that
girls were faced with more emotional problems
than boys, the average score they achieved is 4.36 and it is 3.47
for boys and the statistically
significant difference was t (441) = 3.929, p = 0.00; while boys had more conduct problems
than girls (the average score is 2.08 and 1.68, respectively and t (443) = 2.195, p = 0.02.
Two studies have identified groups of
girls exhibiting chronically high levels of antisocial behavior across childhood and early adolescence and having an increased risk
for continued antisocial behavior.60 In addition, Odgers and several colleagues found that 7.5 percent of all
girls between the ages of seven and fifteen displayed an early - onset of offending that persisted into adolescence and that this pattern was similar to boys of the same age.61 Other studies suggest that although strongly aggressive behavior in
girls before the age of seven is rare, continuity of offending
for such
girls may be stronger
than that among comparable boys and that such early problem behavior in
girls should be considered a
significant warning sign of potential future problems.62
The Amato and Keith meta - analysis of studies conducted before the 1990s revealed one
significant gender difference: the estimated negative effect of divorce on social adjustment was stronger
for boys
than girls.
This relationship was stronger
for girls than for boys in presence of clinically
significant levels of depressive symptoms, but did not differ between the genders in the case of subthreshold levels of depressive symptoms.
Gender was a
significant moderator, with more improvement
for girls than boys in the nurse - led group but more improvement
for boys
than girls in the MIT group.