对比三个低收入和中等收入国家的执行职能测量的速度和准确性方法
Charlotte Wray1, Alysse J Kowalski2, Feziwe Mpondo3
1Department of Psychiatry, the University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
PloS one
|August 31, 2023
概括
在低收入国家对执行职能 (EF) 的评分方法进行比较,发现计算得分 (准确性和反应时间) 可能比差异得分 (仅反应时间) 更可靠. 仔细考虑得分对不同的人口来说至关重要.
科学领域:
- 认知心理学 认知心理学
- 神经科学是一个神经科学.
- 发展心理学 发展心理学
背景情况:
- 执行功能 (EF) 是关键的认知过程.
- 高收入国家经常制定标准化的EF测量和评分方法.
- 人们对EF评分方法的跨文化通用性知之甚少.
研究的目的:
- 为了比较两个已建立的评分方法来衡量执行功能:差异分数和计算分数.
- 在低收入和中等收入国家评估这些评分方法的跨文化有效性和可靠性.
主要方法:
- 利用了来自三个低收入和中等收入出生队伍 (危地马拉,菲律宾,南非) 的成年人数据.
- 对比差异得分 (仅反应时间) 与计算得分 (准确性和反应时间) 对于抑制和认知灵活性.
- 分析了不同人群中分数的分布模式.
主要成果:
- 这两种评分方法都表现出非正常分布,在差异评分中更加明显.
- 在队列之间观察到得分分布的显著差异,特别是在危地马拉.
- 与差异得分相比,计算得分显示出潜在的更高可靠性.
结论:
- 现有的执行职能评分方法可能无法在不同的文化背景中很好地泛化.
- 计算机分数显示出作为在跨文化研究中更可靠的EF测量方法的希望.
- 在实施之前,对于每个特定人群来说,对EF评分方法的仔细考虑和验证至关重要.
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