The MANOVA shows differences between the genders at the .05 significance level for all of the observation items. The gender effect varies in a range of .01–.08, which, according to Cohen (1988), is of small to medium impact. At a more stringent level of significance (=.01), the analyses showed differences between girls and boys for all of the items except L4.2, ‘‘copes with the kindergarten’s routines.’’ (Table 4).