Sentence examples for more externalizing symptoms from inspiring English sources

Furthermore, girls experience more internalizing symptoms (Vostanis et al. 1997; van Eldik 2005; van Eldik et al. 2004; Dammeyer 2010), whereas boys experience more externalizing symptoms (Theunissen et al. 2013).

Adolescents with fewer self-resources and less school support reported more externalizing symptoms, as did those with more peer support.

Berlin youth reported more externalizing symptoms than youth in The Hague and Paris did, and youth in Geneva reported more than youth in Paris.

This finding is in keeping with previous research indicating that girls tend to display more internalizing problems, while boys are inclined to exhibit more externalizing symptoms [ 57].

Individuals who are aggressive and bully others not surprisingly concurrently display more externalizing symptoms than those being bullied and peers who have no involvement in bullying [ 15].

Tobacco smokers were more likely to have had externalizing symptoms, to have experienced academic difficulties, to have used tobacco and cannabis at a young age and to have high familial risk than non-smokers.

Conrad and Hammen [ 19] showed that depressed mothers made more negative comments in interactions with their symptomatic child (experiencing either internalizing or externalizing symptoms) during a discussion compared to non-depressed mothers.

Further, the pattern of these correlations was also comparable to that observed in previous studies and indicates that attention control is more convincingly linked to internalizing symptoms (i.e., anxiety and depression) than to externalizing symptoms (i.e., aggression) [ 49].

Partly because of the difficult distinction between normal anxiety in children and symptoms of an anxiety disorder, plus the different manifestation of anxiety in children (more externalizing than internalizing).

However, psychiatric symptom profiles in Moroccan-Dutch youth measured with various instruments tend to be more externalizing than internalizing [ 9, 16, 30], thus it could also be a reflection of the actual distribution.

Findings regarding externalizing problems were contrary to previous research suggesting that adolescents who report more externalizing problems are more likely to initiate sexual intercourse early (Donenberg et al., 2003).