从幼儿期到老年期正常人和智力迟钝者社会群体形成的发展：神经精神病学、发育及认知方面的影响。

The development of social group formation in normal and mentally retarded persons from early childhood through old age: neuropsychiatric, developmental, and cognitive implications.

作者信息

Burgess J W

机构信息

Department of Psychiatry, University of California Los Angeles.

出版信息

Psychiatry Res. 1989 Oct;30(1):31-43. doi: 10.1016/0165-1781(89)90169-8.

DOI:10.1016/0165-1781(89)90169-8

PMID:2594869

Abstract

To test the hypothesis that mentally retarded persons exhibit identifiable styles of social grouping, the size and sex composition of spontaneous social groups were studied in 570 mentally retarded and 3,030 nonretarded persons from preschool-elderly ages. Both populations showed similar developmental trends: group sizes increased through childhood, decreased thereafter until middle age, and increased again in the elderly. However, mentally retarded persons formed smaller groups at all ages: solitary individuals predominated with few groups larger than dyads. A subgroup of lower-functioning retarded persons formed even smaller groups. Nonretarded females were more aggregative than males, but mentally retarded persons showed no such sex differences.

摘要

为了检验智力迟钝者表现出可识别的社会群体形成方式这一假设，对570名智力迟钝者和3030名从学前到老年的非智力迟钝者自发形成的社会群体的规模和性别构成进行了研究。两类人群都呈现出相似的发展趋势：群体规模在童年期增大，此后直至中年减小，在老年期又再次增大。然而，智力迟钝者在各个年龄段形成的群体都较小：独居者占主导，很少有超过二元组的群体。功能较低的智力迟钝者亚组形成的群体更小。非智力迟钝女性比男性更倾向于聚集，但智力迟钝者没有这种性别差异。