LIFE Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases, University of Leipzig, Philipp-Rosenthal-Strasse 27, 04103, Leipzig, Germany.
Department of Women and Child Health, Hospital for Children and Adolescents and Center for Pediatric Research (CPL), Leipzig University, Liebigstrasse 20a, 04103, Leipzig, Germany.
BMC Pediatr. 2019 Mar 11;19(1):77. doi: 10.1186/s12887-019-1450-6.
The present study investigates whether sensation seeking in pre-school-age children is associated with age, gender and socio-economic status, and how sensation seeking relates to behavioural difficulties.
The study sample consisted of 423 three- to six-year-old children whose parents had completed questionnaires on the children's sensation seeking (Sensation Seeking Scale for Young Children), socio-economic status, and behavioural difficulties (Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire). Multiple linear regression models were applied to investigate associations between sensation seeking and age, gender, socio-economic status and behavioural difficulties.
Sensation seeking was significantly higher in male vs. female children but not associated with children's socio-economic status. Furthermore, sensation seeking was positively correlated with conduct problems, but negatively with emotional symptoms and peer-relationship problems.
These results replicate findings in adults and strengthen the assumption that sensation seeking is a personality trait that is already observable in early childhood. Furthermore, our results suggest relationships between higher levels of sensation seeking and externalising behaviour as well as relationships between lower levels of sensation seeking and internalising behaviour.
LIFE Child study: ClinicalTrials.gov, clinical trial number NCT02550236 .
本研究旨在探讨学龄前儿童的感觉寻求是否与年龄、性别和社会经济地位有关，以及感觉寻求与行为困难之间的关系。
研究样本包括 423 名 3 至 6 岁的儿童，其父母完成了关于儿童感觉寻求（儿童感觉寻求量表）、社会经济地位和行为困难（长处和困难问卷）的问卷。应用多元线性回归模型来探讨感觉寻求与年龄、性别、社会经济地位和行为困难之间的关系。
与女孩相比，男孩的感觉寻求显著更高，但与儿童的社会经济地位无关。此外，感觉寻求与行为问题呈正相关，与情绪症状和同伴关系问题呈负相关。
这些结果复制了成人研究的结果，进一步证实了感觉寻求是一种在幼儿期就可以观察到的人格特质。此外，我们的结果表明，较高的感觉寻求水平与外向行为有关，而较低的感觉寻求水平与内向行为有关。
LIFE 儿童研究：ClinicalTrials.gov，临床试验编号 NCT02550236。
