EMOTIONAL BEHAVIOURAL DISORDERS AND SOCIA L COMPETENCE OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS IN EASTERN AND WESTERN GERMANY - RESULTS OF A NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE STUDY/

This study examines differences in frequency of emotional/behavioural disorders of children and adolescents in eastern and western Germany. In the national representative sample N = 2856 parents of 4-18 years-o ld children and adolescents answered: Achenbachs Child-Behavior-Checkl ist. N = 1798 children and adolescents aged 11-18 answered Achenbachs Youth-Self-Report. Comparing means of scales of parents and children/a dolescents, no differences between eastern and western Germany can:be found. Only YSR shows gender differences between both parts of Germany , emphasized by the comparison of extremely high scores;:Girls in east ern Germany judge themselves twice as often as bothered by internal pr oblems than girls in western Germany. These differences can be: traced back to a higher social withdrawal and to larger social problems with peers.