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Table 1 Descriptive information for the present sample (n = 1007)

From: A parent-report measure of children’s anxiety: psychometric properties of the Macquarie Anxiety Behavioural Scale (MABS) in a Chinese sample of preschool children

Variables

Number (percentage)

Child age

 

3 years old

123 (12.21%)

4 years old

352 (34.96%)

5 years old

340 (33.76%)

6 years old

192 (19.07%)

Parent

 

Father

302 (29.99%)

Mother

705 (70.01%)

Educational level (mother/father)

 

Primary education or below

34 (3.38%)

Middle school education

254 (25.22%)

High school education

180 (17.87%)

Undergraduate Education

474 (47.07%)

Postgraduate education or above

65 (6.45%)

Occupation (mother/father)

 

staff of state organs or institutions

276 (27.41%)

employee of enterprises, companies or factories

219 (21.75%)

individual industrial and commercial households

95 (9.43%)

agricultural workers

56 (5.56%)

unemployees

103 (10.23%)

others

258 (25.62%)