Tirosh E, Abadi J, Berger A
Hannah Khoushy Child Development Center, Haifa Medical Center, (Rothschild), Israel.
Isr J Med Sci. 1988 Nov;24(11):676-80.
A review of the literature on differences between Israeli children born to parents of North African and of European descent revealed only a few studies concerning child development. Two trends emerged: a) these developmental differences seemed to resolve gradually over time; and b) there appeared to be an early general developmental precocity in the infants of North African descent, while in later childhood, European children generally performed better in all developmental areas. The present study compared the early behavior of 40 second-generation Israeli neonates from these two ethnic groups. The results indicated a few statistically significant behavioral differences between the groups, all in favor of the North African group. The auditory habituation item was dependent on maternal education, a result which may be attributed to genetic and/or intrauterine environmental factors fostering the development of a protective mechanism in a potentially over-stimulatory future environment. The small-scale differences between the neonates of the two ethnic groups may represent the already documented tendency and gradual resolution of interethnic variations and the early North African precocity during infancy.
一项关于以色列北非裔和欧洲裔父母所生孩子差异的文献综述显示，仅有少数关于儿童发育的研究。出现了两种趋势：a）这些发育差异似乎会随着时间逐渐消除；b）北非裔婴儿似乎早期普遍发育早熟，而在童年后期，欧洲裔儿童在所有发育领域通常表现更好。本研究比较了这两个族群的40名第二代以色列新生儿的早期行为。结果表明两组之间存在一些具有统计学意义的行为差异，所有差异都有利于北非裔群体。听觉习惯化项目取决于母亲的教育程度，这一结果可能归因于遗传和/或子宫内环境因素，这些因素促进了在潜在过度刺激的未来环境中保护机制的发展。两个族群新生儿之间的小规模差异可能代表了已经记录在案的族裔间差异趋势和逐渐消除的情况，以及北非裔婴儿在婴儿期的早期早熟现象。
