However, the referred children did have
significantly lower effortful control than the general population children (Table 2).
Not exact matches
Regarding levels of temperament traits, results showed that referred children had
significantly lower levels of
effortful control than general population children, with less capacity to maintain attentional focus and less capacity to plan and suppress inappropriate response reactions.
Within the temperament dimension
effortful control all subscales were
significantly different between the groups in the expected direction, with the referred group scoring
lower than the population group (Table 2).