Bergman A J, Wolfson M A, Walker E F
Department of Psychology, St. Johns University, Jamaica, New York 11439, USA.
J Abnorm Child Psychol. 1997 Jun;25(3):229-37. doi: 10.1023/a:1025700116710.
Previous studies have found that early neuromotor deficits may be a precursor of later psychopathology. The present study examined the relationship between neuromotor dysfunction and behavioral deviance in children characterized by a variety of risk factors (parental schizophrenia, parental psychiatric disorder other than schizophrenia, and parental maltreatment). The sample consisted of 108 children (average age 9.75 years) who were assessed twice, approximately 1 year apart. It was was found that maltreated children had poorer neuromotor functioning and more behavior problems than children who were not maltreated, regardless of parental psychiatric status. The results also indicated that the relationship between neuromotor functioning and problem behaviors varied as a function of parental psychiatric status. These findings suggest that, although the effects of maltreatment are generalized and pervasive, there are distinctive relationships between neuromotor functioning and behavioral deviance depending on the nature of the risk factors a child has been exposed to.
先前的研究发现，早期神经运动缺陷可能是后期精神病理学的先兆。本研究考察了以多种风险因素（父母患精神分裂症、父母患有精神分裂症以外的精神疾病以及父母虐待）为特征的儿童中神经运动功能障碍与行为偏差之间的关系。样本包括108名儿童（平均年龄9.75岁），他们接受了两次评估，间隔约1年。结果发现，无论父母的精神状态如何，受虐待儿童的神经运动功能比未受虐待儿童更差，行为问题也更多。结果还表明，神经运动功能与问题行为之间的关系因父母的精神状态而异。这些发现表明，尽管虐待的影响是普遍且广泛的，但根据儿童所接触风险因素的性质，神经运动功能与行为偏差之间存在独特的关系。
