Table 2 Comorbidity and psychiatric severity in high- and low-absent anxious students
Variable | High absence | Low absence | Significance | Whole sample a | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
high anxiety | high anxiety | (N= 865) | ||||
(N= 21) | (N= 73) | t Value ( df) | χ2( df) | |||
Psychiatric severity | 3.33 (1.20) | 2.63 (1.09) | 2.53 (90) | 0.013 | 0.76 (1.35) | |
SDQ behavioural problems | 3.23 (1.64) | 2.23 (1.70) | 2.39 (92) | 0.019 | 1.75 (1.46) | |
Personality traits | 4.71 (2.45) | 4.56 (2.40) | 0.252 (90) | 0.802 | 1.98 (2.03) | |
SDQ relational problems | 2.81 (1.69) | 3.43 (2.21) | −1.18 (92) | 0.241 | 1.77 (1.58) | |
SMFQ | 12.05 (4.61) | 10.01 (4.55) | 1.80 (92) | 0.075 | 4.95 (4.43) | |
Categorical variables | ||||||
Drinking alcohol at least every week (% yes) | 9.52 | 25.58 | 0.582 (1) | 0.445 | 7.7 | |
Tried cannabis (% yes) | 30 | 12.33 | 3.62 (1) | 0.057 | 8.1 | |
Tried other narcotics (% yes) | 25 | 8.57 | 3.91 (1) | 0.048 | 3.3 |