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The Predictive Validity of Infant Assessments in Rural Guatemala.
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Lasky, Robert E.; And Others – Child Development, 1981
The behavioral development of rural Guatemalan infants was assessed shortly after birth on a Neonatal Assessment Scale (NAS) and at 6-, 15-, and 24-months-of-age on a Composite Infant Scale (CIS). Summary variables based on NAS performance poorly predicted later assessed performance even as recently as six months after birth. The CIS modestly…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Foreign Countries, Infant Behavior
The Relation of Growth to Cognition in a Well-Nourished Preschool Population.
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Pollitt, Ernesto; And Others – Child Development, 1982
Reports the results of a multiple regression analysis conducted to determine, in a group of three- to six-year-old children, the magnitude of IQ variance accounted for by physical growth variables and socioeconomic status indicators. (RH)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Intelligence Quotient
The Relationship of Socioeconomic Status and Sex to Body Size, Skeletal Maturation, and Cognitive Status of Guatemala City Schoolchildren.
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Bogin, Barry; MacVean, Robert B. – Child Development, 1983
Longitudinal data from a study of child development in Guatemala City were used to describe the influence of socioeconomic status and sex on physical and cognitive growth status. The correlation between growth status variables was also analyzed. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Body Height, Body Weight, Cognitive Development, Foreign Countries
The Effects of State Terrorism and Exile on Indigenous Guatemalan Refugee Children: A Mental Health Assessment and an Analysis of Children's Narratives.
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Miller, Kenneth E. – Child Development, 1996
Examined the mental health and psychosocial development of 58 Guatemalan Mayan children living in 2 refugee camps in the Mexican state of Chiapas. Found only minimal evidence of psychological trauma among the children and a positive relationship between children's mental health and the health status (physical and mental) of their mothers. (MDM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Depression (Psychology), Emotional Development
The Relationship between Physical Growth and Infant Behavioral Development in Rural Guatemala.
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Lasky, Robert E.; And Others – Child Development, 1981
Investigated the relationship between anthropometric indices and behavioral development during the first two years of life in rural Guatemala. Body length and weight most strongly correlated with behavioral development. When length and weight were controlled statistically, variance in behavioral development was accounted for. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Body Height, Body Weight, Foreign Countries, Infant Behavior
Maternal Work and Child-Care Strategies in Peri-Urban Guatemala: Nutritional Effects.
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Engle, Patrice L. – Child Development, 1991
A study of 8 to 35 month olds found that informally employed mothers had more undernourished children than did formally employed or nonworking mothers. With maternal education controlled for, no effects of maternal employment on children's growth patterns were found. Percentage of family income earned by the mother was associated with children's…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Body Height, Body Weight, Day Care