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Risk and Protective Variables Related with Continuity of Infant Development at Risks

  • Shin, Yoo-Lim (Dept. of Child & Family Studies, The Catholic University of Korea) ;
  • Lee, Meery (Dept. of Youth Guidance & Sport Education, Korean National Sport University) ;
  • Park, Ji-Nah (Dept. of Psychiatry, Duke University)
  • Received : 2012.03.30
  • Accepted : 2012.05.31
  • Published : 2012.06.30
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Abstract

This study examined risk and protective variables related with the continuity of developmental risks among 136 infants, aged 4-10 months. Using the Denver Developmental Screening Test, 136 infants among 2978 infants in the first wave of the Korea Child Panel were classified into the developmental risk group. Among the 136 risk group infants, 45 infants stayed in the risk group (continuing risk group) and the other 91 infants moved into the normal group (recovering risk group) after 1 year. Group differences were tested in the levels of infant, mother and father variables to examine which variables were associated with the continuity of developmental risks for a year. Variables indicating parents' marital relationships such as the mothers' marital satisfaction and conflict of the first wave and the fathers' marital satisfaction of the second wave significantly distinguished the continuing from the recovering risk group. In addition, there were significant group differences in the levels of mothers' self-efficacy in the first wave. The findings suggest that the exposure to marital conflict during infancy is associated with the continuity of developmental risks.

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