TY - JOUR
TI - Comparison of self-reported emotional and behavioural problems in
adolescents from Greece and Finland
AU - Kapi, Aikaterini
AU - Veltsista, Alexandra
AU - Sovio, Ulla
AU - Jarvelin,
AU - Marjo-Riitta
AU - Bakoula, Chryssa
JO - ACTA PAEDIATRICA SCANDINAVICA
PY - 2007
VL - 96
TODO - 8
SP - 1174-1179
PB - Blackwell Publishing Inc.
SN - null
TODO - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.2007.00370.x
TODO - adolescents; cross-cultural comparison; emotional and behavioural
problems; Youth Self-Report
TODO - Aim: To compare self-reported emotional and behavioural problems among
Greek and Finnish adolescents.
Methods: Youth Self-Report scores were analysed for 3373 Greek
adolescents aged 18 years and 7039 Finnish adolescents aged 15-16 years
from the general population in both countries. The impact of country,
gender, place of residence, socioeconomic status (SES) and family
stability on the scores was evaluated.
Results: Only country and gender yielded small to medium effect on the
scores. Greek boys scored significantly higher than Finns on 10 of the
11 YSR syndromes, particularly on the anxious/depressed scale. Greek
girls scored significantly lower than Finnish girls on the somatic
complaints and delinquent behaviour scales. In general, girls scored
higher than boys on both internalising and externalising problems. The
gender by country interaction revealed that Finnish girls reported more
externalising problems.
Conclusion: The main differences marked in this comparison were the
higher level of anxiety and depression in Greeks than Finns and the
higher level of externalising problems in Finnish girls than boys.
Cultural standards could play an important role in explaining these
differences. Overall, it seems that only a small number of differences
exist between a northern and southern European region.
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