In the article “The Impact of Malnutrition on Intelligence at 3 and 11 Years of Age: The Mediating Role of Temperament” the authors wanted to find out the effects of malnutrition on children’s intelligence and the role of temperament. In their hypothesis, they stated that “three aspects of malnutrition (stunting, wasting, and anemia) assessed at age 3 will be related to degradation of cognitive performance at ages 3 and 11 years, and also to an inhibited temperament at 3 years.” They tested whether factors of temperament (inhibited and uninhibited and task-orientation) has a “mediating effect on intelligence” (Impact of Malnutrition).
In order to test their hypothesis, the authors used previous research from 1972 where 1,795 participants from …show more content…
The children were tested on withdrawal or inhibition at different points of the test. The first test was from the child’s arrival in the waiting room in the presence of toys, and once at the end of the session. Twice more this test was preformed, at the beginning of cognitive testing, and then between tests by AC.
Psychosocial adversity was tested on children at three years of age and then when they were eleven. They homes were visited by a social worker who interviewed the caregivers when the children were three and then again when they were eleven. The social worker would mark a point for whatever variable that existed.
The variables were father or mother being uneducated mother, the father being in a job that was unskilled, it being a single parent household, the child having a teenage mother when he or she was born, being separated from their parents, the mother not being in good health, the child being 5th or higher at age 3 within siblings, and if the home was too crowded. The higher the score on the index was, the greater the …show more content…
This means that we may then expect that anemia would have “general effects on the system’s underlying cognitive efficiency and temperament and there would therefore be a common basis for impairment of both systems” (Impact of Malnutrition).
The overall end findings show that malnutrition does have an effect on intelligence and also temperament and it starts with even the smallest amount of malnutrition. It also has “a linear effect as chronic indices of malnutrition increases” (Impact of Malnutrition). When it comes to malnutrition and IQ, temperament plays an important role as mediator.
I did not realize that anemia had an effect on cognitive efficiency or temperament, so that was an interesting thing to learn. I thought that the article was interesting, as were the graphs and indexes, though some parts of the articles needed some
In order to test their hypothesis, the authors used previous research from 1972 where 1,795 participants from …show more content…
The children were tested on withdrawal or inhibition at different points of the test. The first test was from the child’s arrival in the waiting room in the presence of toys, and once at the end of the session. Twice more this test was preformed, at the beginning of cognitive testing, and then between tests by AC.
Psychosocial adversity was tested on children at three years of age and then when they were eleven. They homes were visited by a social worker who interviewed the caregivers when the children were three and then again when they were eleven. The social worker would mark a point for whatever variable that existed.
The variables were father or mother being uneducated mother, the father being in a job that was unskilled, it being a single parent household, the child having a teenage mother when he or she was born, being separated from their parents, the mother not being in good health, the child being 5th or higher at age 3 within siblings, and if the home was too crowded. The higher the score on the index was, the greater the …show more content…
This means that we may then expect that anemia would have “general effects on the system’s underlying cognitive efficiency and temperament and there would therefore be a common basis for impairment of both systems” (Impact of Malnutrition).
The overall end findings show that malnutrition does have an effect on intelligence and also temperament and it starts with even the smallest amount of malnutrition. It also has “a linear effect as chronic indices of malnutrition increases” (Impact of Malnutrition). When it comes to malnutrition and IQ, temperament plays an important role as mediator.
I did not realize that anemia had an effect on cognitive efficiency or temperament, so that was an interesting thing to learn. I thought that the article was interesting, as were the graphs and indexes, though some parts of the articles needed some