In addition, results from the current study indicated that children with Moderate or Severe School Performance needs had significantly higher overall scores in the Behavioral and Emotional Needs and Risk Behavior Need domains. These results are in line with previous research, which indicate that behavioral problems and academic difficulties tend to co-occur, particularly for children in care (Stone, 2007). However, it is not possible to determine the direction of the relationship between behavioral problems and academic difficulties. Researchers have hypothesized that behavioral problems may be a result of academic difficulties; or that both academic difficulties and behavioral problems may be an
indirect consequence of involvement with the child welfare system. On the other hand, academic success is an important resiliency factor that is associated with other areas of success, such as better emotion regulation .