Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Dev Sci. 2011 Sep;14(5):1245-54. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01071.x.
An important question within developmental psychology concerns the extent to which the maturational gains that children make across multiple diverse domains of functioning can be attributed to global (domain-general) developmental processes. The present study investigated this question by examining the extent to which individual differences in change across children's development in five different domains are correlated. Multivariate growth-curve models were fit to longitudinal data on linguistic, mathematics, reading, gross motor, and fine motor skills in 8950 children ranging in age from 44 to 86 months (3.7 years to 7.2 years). All five rates of change were positively intercorrelated. A common factor accounted for 42% of the individual differences in change. These results suggest that a global dimension underlies substantial proportions of cognitive and psychomotor development.
发展心理学中的一个重要问题是，儿童在多个不同功能领域中取得的成熟进步在多大程度上可以归因于全局（领域通用）的发展过程。本研究通过检查儿童在五个不同领域发展过程中的变化差异之间的相关性来探讨这个问题。对 8950 名年龄在 44 至 86 个月（3.7 至 7.2 岁）的儿童的语言、数学、阅读、大运动和精细运动技能的纵向数据进行了多元增长曲线模型拟合。所有五个变化率均呈正相关。一个共同因素解释了变化个体差异的 42%。这些结果表明，全球维度是认知和心理运动发展的重要组成部分。
