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The Relationship between Physical Growth and Infant Behavioral Development in Rural Guatemala.
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Lasky, Robert E.; And Others – Child Development, 1981
Investigated the relationship between anthropometric indices and behavioral development during the first two years of life in rural Guatemala. Body length and weight most strongly correlated with behavioral development. When length and weight were controlled statistically, variance in behavioral development was accounted for. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Body Height, Body Weight, Foreign Countries, Infant Behavior
Body Size and Form of Black and White Female Youths Measured during 1974-1975 at Columbia, South Carolina
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Meredith, Howard V.; Spurgeon, John H. – Child Development, 1976
From original data at age 13 years on 386 North American females, statistics are presented for 10 somatic variables. Findings are compared with those of other studies. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Blacks, Body Height, Body Weight, Elementary Education
Analysis of Cry Features in Newborns with Differential Fetal Growth.
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Zeskind, Philip Sanford; Ramey, Craig T. – Child Development, 1981
Describes the relationship between neonatal crying and anthropometric indices of fetal growth. No differences were found between cry features of underweight and overweight infants; both groups required more stimulation than average weight infants to elicit crying. It is suggested that certain cry features may reflect the risk status of neonates…
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Body Weight, Infant Behavior, Neonates
Learning To Crawl.
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Adolph, Karen E.; Vereijken, Beatrix; Denny, Mark A. – Child Development, 1998
Examined longitudinally the effects of infants' age, body dimensions, and experience on the development of crawling. Although most infants displayed multiple crawling postures en route to walking, development did not adhere to a strict progression of obligatory, discrete stages. Duration of experience with earlier forms of crawling predicted the…
Descriptors: Age, Body Height, Body Weight, Child Development
The Relationship of Socioeconomic Status and Sex to Body Size, Skeletal Maturation, and Cognitive Status of Guatemala City Schoolchildren.
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Bogin, Barry; MacVean, Robert B. – Child Development, 1983
Longitudinal data from a study of child development in Guatemala City were used to describe the influence of socioeconomic status and sex on physical and cognitive growth status. The correlation between growth status variables was also analyzed. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Body Height, Body Weight, Cognitive Development, Foreign Countries
Long-Term Effects of Food Supplementation and Psychosocial Intervention on the Physical Growth of Colombian Infants at Risk of Malnutrition.
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Super, Charles M.; And Others – Child Development, 1990
At 3 years of age, children who had received food supplementation were an average of 2.6 cm and 642 grams larger than controls. Home visiting and supplementation combined reduced the number of children with severe growth retardation. Participants were 280 infants and their families from poor neighborhoods in Bogota, Colombia. (RH)
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Body Height, Body Weight, Cognitive Development
Maternal Work and Child-Care Strategies in Peri-Urban Guatemala: Nutritional Effects.
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Engle, Patrice L. – Child Development, 1991
A study of 8 to 35 month olds found that informally employed mothers had more undernourished children than did formally employed or nonworking mothers. With maternal education controlled for, no effects of maternal employment on children's growth patterns were found. Percentage of family income earned by the mother was associated with children's…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Body Height, Body Weight, Day Care