@article{ref1,
title="Gender differences in children's problem behaviours in competitive play with friends",
journal="British journal of developmental psychology",
year="2011",
author="Jacobs, Lorna and Hart, Martha and Hughes, Claire and Ensor, Rosie",
volume="29",
number="Pt 2",
pages="176-187",
abstract="Disruptive behaviour disorders are much more common in boys than girls (Office of National Statistics, 1999); in contrast, gender differences in normative problem behaviours are poorly understood. To address this issue, 228 6-year-olds (134 boys, 94 girls) were each observed playing a board game with a same-gender friend. Ratings of aggression, disruption, arousal and negativity were used to index problem behaviours. Multiple-groups confirmatory factor analyses demonstrated that the latent factor had the same metric for boys and girls, but a mean that was approximately half a standard deviation higher for boys than girls. In addition, the association between the latent factor and teachers' ratings of total difficulties was significantly stronger for boys than girls.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0261-510X",
doi="10.1111/j.2044-835X.2010.02016.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-835X.2010.02016.x"
}