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A Cross‐National Prevalence Study of Children with Emotional and Behavioural Problems—A WHO Collaborative Study in the Western Pacific Region
Author(s) -
Matsuura M.,
Okubo Y.,
Kojima T.,
Takahashi R.,
Wang Y.F.,
Shen Y.C.,
Lee C. K.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1993.tb00994.x
Subject(s) - psychology , cross cultural , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , anthropology , sociology
Abstract Emotional and behavioural problems in primary school children were investigated with Renter's questionnaires, in Japan (N = 2638), China (N = 2432) and Korea (N = 1975). The prevalence rates of children with deviant scores on the teachers' and parents scales were 3.9 and 12.0% in Japan, 8.3 and 7.0% in China and 14.1 and 19.1 Korea respectively. Deviance of the antisocial type was more frequent than the neurotic type in Japan and China. Both types were almost equally frequent in Korea. The prevalence of deviance was higher in boys, and also higher in those children with poor school achievement. In China and Korea, the prevalence was higher in children from one‐parent families. Although other family background factors had major effects on deviant behaviour in these two countries, the number of siblings and birth order had only a limited effect on the deviant behaviour of children in Japan, China and Korea.