Appelbaum A S
J Abnorm Child Psychol. 1977 Dec;5(4):417-23. doi: 10.1007/BF00915089.
The impact of child abuse on the developmental functioning of infants was investigated. Thirty verified cases of physically abused children were compared to a reference group of 30 nonabused children matched for age, sex, race, and socioeconomic status. Abused children scored significantly lower in terms of cognitive and motor development as measured by the Bayley Scales of Infant Development. Development delays on three of the four sectors of the Denver Developmental Screening Test, personal-social, language, and gross motor, were also found in the abused children. There were, however, relatively few item differences between the two groups on the 30 more general behavioral variables constituting the Bayley Infant Behavior Record. Results appear to confirm clinical observation of abused children as developmentally retarded with specific delays in the language and gross motor areas. Although methodologically complex, longitudinal studies are clearly indicated to assess the stability and/or reversibility of the present findings.
研究了虐待儿童对婴儿发育功能的影响。将30例经证实的受身体虐待儿童与30名年龄、性别、种族和社会经济地位相匹配的非受虐儿童组成的对照组进行比较。根据贝利婴儿发育量表测量，受虐儿童在认知和运动发育方面的得分显著较低。在受虐儿童中还发现，丹佛发育筛查测试的四个领域中的三个领域，即个人社交、语言和大运动，存在发育迟缓。然而，在构成贝利婴儿行为记录的30个更一般的行为变量上，两组之间的项目差异相对较少。结果似乎证实了临床观察结果，即受虐儿童发育迟缓，在语言和大运动领域有特定的延迟。尽管方法复杂，但显然需要进行纵向研究来评估目前研究结果的稳定性和/或可逆性。
