发育性阅读障碍的性别差异:4项流行病学研究的新发现
Michael Rutter1, Avshalom Caspi, David Fergusson
1Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, Denmark Hill, London, England. j.wickham@iop.kcl.ac.uk
JAMA
|April 29, 2004
概括
阅读障碍在男孩中比女孩更常见,在四项独立研究中观察到的比率更高. 这项研究挑战了之前的理论,认为推偏见是唯一的原因.
科学领域:
- 发展心理学 发展心理学
- 神经科学是一个神经科学.
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
背景情况:
- 以前的研究表明,推偏见影响了男孩报告的阅读障碍率更高.
- 这项研究重新检查了阅读障碍中的性别差异,质疑了早期的假设.
研究的目的:
- 审查关于阅读障碍性别差异研究的历史.
- 从四项流行病学研究中提出关于这些差异的流行率和意义的新证据.
主要方法:
- 分析了来自四项独立的纵向流行病学研究的数据:丹尼丁,克赖斯特彻奇,ONS和E-Risk.
- 包括来自新西兰,英国和英格兰/威尔士的多样化的队列,样本大小很大.
- 通过使用标准化测试 (例如,Burt Word Reading Test,WISC-R) 对不同年龄组的阅读表现和智商的评估.
主要成果:
- 这四项研究都始终显示,男孩的阅读障碍率明显高于女孩.
- 男孩阅读障碍的几率比率在研究中从1.39到3.19不等,即使考虑到智商.
- 这些发现在不同的研究设计和评估方法中是稳定的.
结论:
- 阅读障碍在男孩中明显比在女孩中更频繁.
- 结果挑战了仅仅推偏见就能解释观察到的性别差异的观点.
- 这凸显了男女阅读障碍患病率的真正差异.
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