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Table 1 Participant characteristics, descriptive statistics and contrasts between 296 boys and 356 girls.

From: Associations between children's social functioning and physical activity participation are not mediated by social acceptance: a cross-sectional study

 

Total sample

Boys

Girls

   

Variable

M

SD

M

SD

M

SD

t(df)

p

Hedges' g

Age (years)

10.92

.42

10.92

.40

10.91

.43

-.23 (609)

.82

-.02

SDQ1 - Conduct problems

2.25

1.70

2.45

1.73

2.07

1.66

-2.85 (650)

.01

-.22

SDQ - Peer problems

1.91

1.74

1.97

1.83

1.88

1.69

-.61 (650)

.54

-.05

SDQ - Prosocial

7.99

1.70

7.52

1.78

8.38

1.54

6.50 (586.384)

.00

.52

Social acceptance

3.05

.64

3.05

.65

3.06

.64

.18 (650)

.84

.02

Mean MVPA2 per day (min)

35.82

17.43

42.23

19.22

30.28

13.30

-9.08 (509.604)

.00

-.73

Mean CPM3 per day

543.75

168.07

592.27

173.22

501.56

150.66

-7.06 (589.134)

.00

-.56

Mean MVPA after school per day (min)

10.13

6.65

11.63

7.54

8.82

5.46

-5.32 (516.444)

.00

-.43

Mean CPM after school per day

663.33

322.68

700.40

329.49

630.98

314.17

-2.71 (633)

.01

-.22

  1. 1SDQ = Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire.
  2. 2 MVPA = moderate-to-vigorous physical activity.
  3. 3 CPM = counts per minute.
  4. 4 Scatterthwaite's approximation of degrees of freedom based on unequal variances.
  5. † = p < .10, * = p < .05, ** = p < .01.