ABSTRACT
Mean (standard deviation) BAC–C total difficulties scores for the aggregate 4–11 year-old sample (n= 347), boys (n = 176), and girls (n = 171) were 10.0 (8.0), 9.9 (7.6) and 10.2 (8.4) respectively, suggesting the score distributions did not vary by gender. Mean (standard deviation) BAC–A total difficulties scores for the aggregate 11–18 year-old sample (n = 230), boys (n = 125), and girls (n = 105) were 8.5 (7.6), 9.0 (7.7) and 7.8 (7.4) respectively, suggesting a slight gender variation in the adolescent score distributions. Consistent with previously reported age analyses of ACC (Tarren-Sweeney, 2007) and ACA scores (Tarren-Sweeney, 2013a): (1) older children scored slightly higher on the BAC–C than younger children (age–total score correlation = 0.16), with this age effect being confounded by children’s age at entry into care (older children were more likely to have entered care at older ages, and with greater exposure to pre-care maltreatment); and (2) no age effect was located among BAC–A scores (age–total score correlation = – 0.02).
