School performance and emotional and behavioral disorders.

This essay intends to evaluate the emotional behavioral disorders shown by students attending a Secondary School by using the Youth Self Report (YSR). Women show a different internal pathology and men a more external one. Bes ides it focuses on how this kind of pathology has an influence on performan ce at school, measured by the school marks given by teachers at the end of the school year. It was found that the external pathology is directly relat ed to the number of students who fail, which could explain why male student s fail more subjects than female ones and, among, girls, why the aggressive ones fail more than those who aren't so.