Judge Sharon, Jahns Lisa
Department of Early Childhood, Speech Pathology and Special Education, Old Dominion University, 100 Child Study Center, Norfolk, VA 23529-4117, USA.
J Sch Health. 2007 Dec;77(10):672-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1746-1561.2007.00250.x.
Childhood overweight is a condition that is prevalent within our society, affecting more and more children each year. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between child overweight and educational outcomes.
Data are reported for 13,680 children in third grade from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, a set of data designed and carried out by the US Department of Education. Students were individually administered reading and math assessments. Teachers reported how often students exhibited certain social skills and behaviors. A series of 1-way analyses of covariance and multivariate analysis of covariance was used.
Overweight children had significantly lower math and reading test scores compared with nonoverweight children in third grade. However, these differences became insignificant after including socioeconomic and maternal education variables. Third grade overweight girls had significantly more externalizing and internalizing problems as well as lower self-control scores than nonoverweight girls even after including socioeconomic and maternal education variables.
Findings suggest that how we deal with children's overweight may have implications for the future psychological health of a considerable proportion of US children.
儿童超重是一种在我们社会中普遍存在的状况，每年影响着越来越多的儿童。本研究的目的是探讨儿童超重与教育成果之间的关系。
报告了来自早期儿童纵向研究中13680名三年级儿童的数据，该数据集由美国教育部设计并实施。对学生进行了单独的阅读和数学评估。教师报告了学生表现出某些社交技能和行为的频率。使用了一系列单因素协方差分析和多因素协方差分析。
与三年级非超重儿童相比，超重儿童的数学和阅读测试成绩显著更低。然而，在纳入社会经济和母亲教育变量后，这些差异变得不显著。即使纳入了社会经济和母亲教育变量，三年级超重女孩比非超重女孩有更多的外化和内化问题，以及更低的自我控制得分。
研究结果表明，我们如何应对儿童超重问题可能会对相当一部分美国儿童未来的心理健康产生影响。
