Characteristics of person, place, and activity that trigger failure to speak in children with selective mutism.

Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry · 2022 · PMC9402505 · PMID 33893894

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Finally, regarding characteristics of an activity, there was a negative correlation between the category new activities and age ( r = − 0.320, p = 0.010) and a positive trend with this category and gender ( φ = 0.224, p = 0.073) indicating that parents of girls tended to mention this category more frequently than parents from boys.

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With respect to characteristics of a person, there was only a negative trend between age and the category little child focused ( r = − 0.203, p = 0.095) indicating that the older a child with SM was, the less frequently caregivers identified distant and clumsy behavior of a person as an important feature for their child’s silence.

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