Exploring the social, emotional and behavioural development of preschool children: is Glasgow different?

Table 1 Pearson correlations between SDQ scores (continuous) and socio-demographic variables

	1.	2.	3.	4.	5.	6.	7.	8.	9.	10.	11.	12.	13.	14.	15.
1. Total Difficulties	1
2. Conduct	0.72**	1
3. Hyperactivity	0.79**	0.48**	1
4. Emotional	0.63**	0.20**	0.24**	1
5. Peer problems	0.62**	0.26**	0.23**	0.37**	1
6. Pro-social	−0.36**	−0.34**	−0.30**	−0.13**	−0.24**	1
7. Sex of child	−0.12**	−0.08**	−0.15**	−0.02	−0.06**	0.14**	1
8. Ethnicity (White)	0.08**	0.01	0.04*	0.05**	0.13**	−0.02	−0.01	1
9. Mother education (No qualifications)	−0.23**	−0.18**	−0.17**	−0.16**	−0.13**	0.06**	0.01	−0.07**	1
10. Household income (Lowest)	−0.25**	−0.20**	−0.17**	−0.16**	−0.17**	0.06**	0.03*	−0.11**	0.46**	1
11. Mother’s employment	0.14**	0.11**	0.10**	0.10**	0.09**	−0.07**	−0.02	0.10**	−0.30**	−0.38**	1
12. Household NSSEC (Managerial and Professional)	0.23**	0.19**	0.17**	0.15**	0.15**	−0.03*	−0.03	0.02	−0.52**	−0.58**	0.32**	1
13. Age of mother at birth of child (20 or under)	−0.19**	−0.14**	−0.17**	−0.11**	−0.06**	−0.08**	0.03	−0.01	0.03	0.21**	−0.34**	−0.16**	1
14. Urban/rural classification (Large urban)	−0.05**	−0.05**	−0.05**	−0.03	−0.02	−0.01	−0.01	−0.11**	0.10**	0.04*	0.01	−0.07*	0.07**	1
15. SIMD (2006) (Least Deprived)	0.21**	0.17**	0.16**	0.13**	0.14**	−0.03	0.00	0.05**	−0.37**	−0.46 **	0.18**	0.43**	−0.32**	−0.20**	1
16. Health board (GGC)	−0.00	0.01	−0.01	0.01	−0.02	0.01	0.01	−0.17**	0.05*	0.01	−0.00	0.00	0.01	0.34**	−0.09**

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