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Table 1 Age, sex, absence, and anxiety in the four groups of students and total sample

From: Anxiety as a risk factor for school absenteeism: what differentiates anxious school attenders from non-attenders?

Group

Sex

Age

Absence in days

SCARED

(% female)

( M, SD)

( M, SD)

( M, SD)

High anxiety, high absence (N = 21)

85.7

17.57 (1.50)

25.08 (12.17)

40.00 (13.77)

High anxiety, low absence (N = 73)

79.5

17.45 (1.58)

5.74 (4.17)

34.62 (19.84)

Normal anxiety, high absence (N = 80)

52.5

17.59 (1.54)

22.94 (12.14)

9.97 (6.86)

Normal anxiety, low absence (N = 636)

48.0

17.11 (1.14)

3.86 (3.34)

8.29 (6.20)

Total sample (N = 865)

52.3

17.21 (1.28)

6.49 (8.32)

11.66 (11.15)