较差的书面语用技能与儿童内化症状有关：来自英国一项出生队列研究的证据。
Poor written pragmatic skills are associated with internalising symptoms in childhood: evidence from a UK birth cohort study.
作者信息
Ahmed Kalim, Flouri Eirini, Vigliocco Gabriella
机构信息
Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
Department of Psychology and Human Development, UCL Institute of Education, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
出版信息
Front Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2023 Jun 14;2:1075836. doi: 10.3389/frcha.2023.1075836. eCollection 2023.
INTRODUCTION
This study examined the relation between pragmatic language and internalising (depressive and anxiety) symptoms in 11-year-olds, using data from the 1958 British birth cohort study.
METHODS
The cohort children were asked at age 11 to write an essay on their life as they imagined it would be at age 25. We analysed 200 of these essays for relevance, organisation and context-dependent references.
RESULTS
We found associations between these aspects of pragmatic language and children's internalising symptom scores across parent and teacher ratings, even after adjustment for cognitive ability, socioeconomic position and structural language. Most notably, children writing more coherent essays had fewer teacher-rated internalising symptoms, after adjustment for confounders. Additionally, children who provided more relevant and varied information about their imagined future home-lives had fewer parent-rated internalising symptoms, after adjustment for confounders.
DISCUSSION
The unique associations between pragmatic language skills and internalising symptoms observed are notable but preliminary, highlighting both the need for further research and potential applications for risk-assessment tools.
引言
本研究利用1958年英国出生队列研究的数据，考察了11岁儿童的语用语言与内化（抑郁和焦虑）症状之间的关系。
方法
队列中的儿童在11岁时被要求写一篇关于他们想象中25岁时生活的文章。我们分析了其中200篇文章的相关性、组织性和情境依赖性参考。
结果
我们发现，即使在对认知能力、社会经济地位和结构语言进行调整之后，语用语言的这些方面与家长和教师评分中的儿童内化症状得分之间仍存在关联。最值得注意的是，在对混杂因素进行调整之后，写出更连贯文章的儿童教师评定的内化症状较少。此外，在对混杂因素进行调整之后，那些提供了关于其想象中未来家庭生活更相关、更多样信息的儿童家长评定的内化症状较少。
讨论
观察到的语用语言技能与内化症状之间的独特关联虽值得注意但尚属初步，这既凸显了进一步研究的必要性，也凸显了风险评估工具的潜在应用价值。
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