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Estimating reliability statistics and measurement error variances using instrumental variables with longitudinal data 使用具有纵向数据的工具变量估计可靠性统计和测量误差方差
IF 0.9 4区 社会学 Q4 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH Pub Date : 2020-03-10 DOI: 10.1332/175795920x15844303873216
H. Goldstein, G. Leckie, M. Haynes, P. Tran
The presence of randomly distributed measurement errors in scale scores such as those used in educational and behavioural assessments implies that careful adjustments are required to statistical model estimation procedures if inferences are required for ‘true’ as opposed to ‘observed’ relationships. In many cases this requires the use of external values for ‘reliability’ statistics or ‘measurement error variances’ which may be provided by a test constructor or else inferred or estimated by the data analyst. Popular measures are those described as ‘internal consistency’ estimates and sometimes other measures based on data grouping. All such measures, however, make particular assumptions that may be questionable but are often not examined. In this paper we focus on scaled scores derived from aggregating a set of indicators, and set out a general methodological framework for exploring different ways of estimating reliability statistics and measurement error variances, critiquing certain approaches and suggesting more satisfactory methods in the presence of longitudinal data. In particular, we explore the assumption of local (conditional) item response independence and show how a failure of this assumption can lead to biased estimates in statistical models using scaled scores as explanatory variables. We illustrate our methods using a large longitudinal data set of mathematics test scores from Queensland, Australia.
在教育和行为评估中使用的量表分数中存在随机分布的测量误差,这意味着如果需要推断“真实”而不是“观察到”的关系,则需要对统计模型估计程序进行仔细的调整。在许多情况下,这需要使用“可靠性”统计或“测量误差方差”的外部值,这些值可能由测试构造器提供,或者由数据分析人员推断或估计。常用的衡量标准是那些被称为“内部一致性”的估计,有时还有其他基于数据分组的衡量标准。然而,所有这些措施都做出了可能有问题的特定假设,但往往没有加以审查。在本文中,我们将重点放在通过汇总一组指标得出的尺度分数上,并提出了一个通用的方法框架,用于探索估计可靠性统计和测量误差方差的不同方法,批评某些方法,并在纵向数据存在的情况下提出更令人满意的方法。特别是,我们探讨了局部(条件)项目反应独立性的假设,并展示了该假设的失败如何导致使用缩放分数作为解释变量的统计模型中的偏差估计。我们使用来自澳大利亚昆士兰的数学考试成绩的大型纵向数据集来说明我们的方法。
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引用次数: 1
Causality in life course research: the potential use of ‘natural experiments’ for causal inference 生命过程研究中的因果关系:“自然实验”在因果推理中的潜在应用
IF 0.9 4区 社会学 Q4 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.1332/175795919x15659210629362
Ross Macmillan, C. Hannan
Recent decades have seen renewed attention to issues of causal inference in the social sciences, yet implications for life course research have not been spelled out nor is it clear what types of approaches are best suited for theoretical development on life course processes. We begin by evaluating a number of meta-theoretical perspectives, including critical realism, data mining and experimentation, and find them limited in their potential for causal claims in a life course context. From this, we initiate a discussion of the logic and practice of ‘natural experiments’ for life course research, highlighting issues of how to identify natural experiments, how to use cohort information and variation in the order and timing of life course transitions to isolate variation in exposure, how such events that alter social structures are the key to identification in causal processes of the life course and, finally, of analytic strategies for the extraction of causal conclusions from conventional statistical estimates. Through discussion of both positive and negative examples, we outline the key methodological issues in play and provide a road map of best practices. While we acknowledge that causal claims are not necessary for social explanation, our goal is to explain how causal inference can benefit life course scholarship and outline a set of practices that can complement conventional approaches in the pursuit of causal explanation in life course research.
近几十年来,人们重新关注社会科学中的因果推理问题,但对生命历程研究的影响尚未得到阐明,也不清楚哪种类型的方法最适合生命历程过程的理论发展。我们首先评估一些元理论观点,包括批判现实主义、数据挖掘和实验,并发现它们在生命历程背景下因果关系主张的潜力有限。由此,我们开始讨论生命历程研究中“自然实验”的逻辑和实践,强调如何识别自然实验,如何使用队列信息和生命历程过渡顺序和时间的变化来隔离暴露的变化,这些改变社会结构的事件如何成为识别生命历程因果过程的关键,最后,从传统统计估计中提取因果结论的分析策略。通过讨论积极和消极的例子,我们概述了关键的方法问题,并提供了最佳实践的路线图。虽然我们承认因果关系不是社会解释所必需的,但我们的目标是解释因果推理如何使生命过程学术受益,并概述一套可以补充生命过程研究中追求因果解释的传统方法的实践。
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引用次数: 0
Causation and association from grave to cradle 从坟墓到摇篮的因果关系
IF 0.9 4区 社会学 Q4 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.1332/175795919x15735210172319
H. Joshi
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引用次数: 0
Promises and pitfalls of qualitative longitudinal research 定性纵向研究的前景与陷阱
IF 0.9 4区 社会学 Q4 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.1332/175795920x16040851984946
B. Hollstein
This commentary focuses on promises and pitfalls of qualitative longitudinal research (QLR). Longitudinal data on practices, perspectives, individual relevancies and experiences can be particularly advantageous for life course, social policy and health research. However, the complexity of QLR carries certain downsides, dilemmas and trade-offs. The commentary discusses implications of different qualitative methods for the investigation of stability and change, the tensions between flexibility and comparability, and challenges related to sampling and the explanatory power of QLR.It is argued that the choices of methods for data collection and data analysis have stark implications for what can be determined as change and stability across time. In addition, several ways of ensuring comparability across time are described. Finally, sampling strategies are outlined that aim to achieve and maintain heterogeneity of cases.As standards of good practice, the author advocates more thorough documentation of the methods of data collection, sampling and data analysis employed in QLR studies, along with a better description of instruments and how they are applied.
这篇评论着重于定性纵向研究(QLR)的前景和缺陷。关于做法、观点、个人相关性和经验的纵向数据对生命历程、社会政策和健康研究尤其有利。然而,QLR的复杂性带来了某些缺点、困境和权衡。评论讨论了稳定性和变化调查的不同定性方法的含义,灵活性和可比性之间的紧张关系,以及与抽样和QLR解释力相关的挑战。有人认为,数据收集和数据分析方法的选择对可以确定为随时间变化和稳定的东西具有明显的影响。此外,还描述了几种确保跨时间可比性的方法。最后,概述了旨在实现和保持案例异质性的抽样策略。作为良好实践的标准,作者主张对QLR研究中采用的数据收集、抽样和数据分析方法进行更彻底的记录,同时对工具及其应用方式进行更好的描述。
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引用次数: 5
The social-origin gap in university graduation by gender and immigrant status: a cohort analysis for Switzerland 基于性别和移民身份的大学毕业社会来源差距:瑞士的队列分析
IF 0.9 4区 社会学 Q4 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.1332/175795920x16034769228656
Benita Combet, Daniel Oesch
A large literature shows that families with more resources are able to provide better learning environments and make more ambitious educational choices for their children. At the end of compulsory education, the result is a social-origin gap in school-track attendance and learning outcomes. Our paper analyses whether this gap further widens thereafter for children with comparable school achievement, and whether the gap varies by gender and migrant status. We examine graduation rates from higher education by combining a cohort study from Switzerland with a reweighting method to match students on their school track, grades, reading literacy and place of residence at the end of compulsory school. The one observed feature that sets them apart is their parents’ socio-economic status. When analysing their graduation rates 14 years later at the age of 30, we find a large social-origin gap. The rate of university completion at age 30 is 20 percentage points higher among students from the highest socio-economic status quartile than among students from the lowest quartile, even though their school abilities were comparable at age 16. This gap appears to be somewhat smaller among women than men, and among natives than migrants, but differences are not statistically significant. For men and women, migrants and natives alike, abundant parental resources strongly increase the likelihood of university graduation in Switzerland.
大量文献表明,拥有更多资源的家庭能够为孩子提供更好的学习环境,并为他们的孩子做出更雄心勃勃的教育选择。在义务教育结束时,结果是在上学出勤率和学习成果方面出现了社会根源的差距。我们的论文分析了这一差距是否会在具有可比学习成绩的儿童之后进一步扩大,以及这一差距是否会因性别和移民身份而变化。我们将瑞士的一项队列研究与一种重新加权的方法结合起来,考察了高等教育的毕业率,该方法与学生在义务教育结束时的学业轨迹、成绩、阅读能力和居住地相匹配。一个可以观察到的将他们区分开来的特征是他们父母的社会经济地位。在分析他们14年后30岁时的毕业率时,我们发现了一个巨大的社会出身差距。社会经济地位最高的四分之一的学生在30岁时完成大学学业的比率比社会经济地位最低的四分之一的学生高20个百分点,尽管他们在16岁时的学习能力相当。这一差距在女性中似乎比男性小一些,在本地人中比移民小一些,但差异在统计上并不显著。无论是男性还是女性,无论是移民还是本地人,充裕的父母资源都大大增加了他们在瑞士大学毕业的可能性。
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引用次数: 1
Characterising attrition from childhood to adulthood in a 20-year cohort: which baseline factors are influential, and can bias be corrected? 在一个20年的队列中描述从童年到成年的损耗特征:哪些基线因素是有影响的,偏见可以纠正吗?
IF 0.9 4区 社会学 Q4 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.1332/175795920x16000977636901
P. Otáhal, L. Blizzard, D. Hosmer, J. Stankovich, A. Venn
Attrition is common in longitudinal studies and can lead to bias when the missingness pattern affects the distributions of analysed variables. Characterisation of factors predictive of attrition is vital to longitudinal research. Few studies have investigated the factors predictive of attrition from childhood cohorts with large-scale loss to follow-up. Methods to remove potential bias are available and have been well studied in scenarios of short intervening periods between contact and follow-up. Less is known about the performance of such techniques when there is a large initial loss of participants after a long intervening period. The Australian Schools Health and Fitness Survey (ASHFS) was conducted in 1985 when participants were school children aged 7–15 years. The first follow-up occurred 20 years later with substantial loss of participants: 80% were traced, 61% enrolled and provided brief questionnaire information, 47% provided more extensive questionnaire information and 28% attended clinics. Factors associated with attrition were examined and two common techniques, multiple imputation (MI) and inverse probability weighting (IPW) were used to determine the potential for correcting the bias in the estimate of the association between self-rated fitness and BMI in childhood. Attrition from childhood to adulthood was found to be influenced by the same factors that operate in adult cohorts: lower education, lower socio-economic position and male sex. Attrition patterns varied by the stage of follow-up. Estimated childhood associations biased by adulthood attrition were able to be corrected using MI, but IPW was unsuccessful due to a lack of completely observed informative variables.
损耗在纵向研究中很常见,当缺失模式影响分析变量的分布时,会导致偏差。表征预测磨损的因素对纵向研究至关重要。很少有研究调查了预测儿童队列大规模损失的因素。消除潜在偏倚的方法是可用的,并且已经在接触和随访之间的短时间间隔的情况下进行了很好的研究。在经过一段很长时间的干预后,当参与者最初大量流失时,人们对这些技术的表现知之甚少。澳大利亚学校健康和健身调查(ASHFS)于1985年进行,参与者是7-15岁的学龄儿童。第一次随访发生在20年后,参与者大量流失:80%的人被追踪,61%的人登记并提供简短的问卷信息,47%的人提供更广泛的问卷信息,28%的人去了诊所。研究了与磨损相关的因素,并使用了两种常用技术,即多重归算(MI)和逆概率加权(IPW)来确定在估计儿童时期自评健康与BMI之间关联时纠正偏差的可能性。研究发现,从童年到成年的磨耗受到与成年群体相同的因素的影响:教育程度较低、社会经济地位较低和男性。流失模式因随访阶段而异。估计的儿童期关联因成年期损耗而偏倚,可以使用MI来纠正,但IPW由于缺乏完全观察到的信息变量而不成功。
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引用次数: 2
The development of gendered occupational aspirations across adolescence: examining the role of different types of upper-secondary education 青春期性别职业抱负的发展:考察不同类型的高中教育的作用
IF 0.9 4区 社会学 Q4 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.1332/175795920x16015782777176
Ariane Basler, Irene Kriesi, Christian Imdorf
Gender-typical educational and occupational goals are an important precursor of educational gender segregation and unequal opportunities of men and women in the labour market. However, little is known about how gender-typical aspirations develop during childhood and adolescence. Drawing on identity and opportunity arguments from a developmental perspective, this paper attempts to fill this gap by examining whether and to what extent gender-typical aspirations change during adolescence and how track allocation in secondary school is related to the development of gendered occupational aspirations between the ages of 15 and 21. The analyses are based on the Swiss Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth. They include an observation span of six years, during which respondents were surveyed at the ages of 15, 16, 18 and 21.The findings show that gender-typical occupational aspirations were most prevalent at the age of 15. Their level and development differed by upper-secondary school track and gender. Young men’s aspirations were considerably more gender-typical than those of young women. Aspirations became less gender-typical for women in baccalaureate school and in initial vocational education and training programmes with high academic requirements and, in particular, for young men who entered vocational education and training with low requirements. Overall, our results support the assumption that changes in gender-typical aspirations during adolescence are the result of an interplay between opportunity structures offered by the upper-secondary school track, identity and status considerations.
具有性别特征的教育和职业目标是教育上的性别隔离和劳动力市场上男女机会不平等的重要先兆。然而,人们对儿童和青少年时期典型的性别抱负是如何发展的知之甚少。从发展的角度出发,利用身份和机会的观点,本文试图通过研究性别典型抱负在青春期是否发生变化以及在多大程度上发生变化,以及中学的轨道分配如何与15至21岁之间性别职业抱负的发展相关,来填补这一空白。这些分析是基于瑞士儿童和青少年纵向调查。其中包括为期六年的观察,在此期间,受访者分别在15岁、16岁、18岁和21岁接受调查。研究结果显示,具有性别特征的职业抱负在15岁时最为普遍。他们的水平和发展因高中阶段和性别而异。年轻男性的抱负比年轻女性更具有性别特征。在学士学位学校和对学术要求高的初级职业教育和培训方案中,特别是在进入要求低的职业教育和培训的青年男子中,妇女的愿望变得不那么具有性别特征。总的来说,我们的研究结果支持这样的假设,即青春期性别典型愿望的变化是高中轨道提供的机会结构、身份和地位考虑之间相互作用的结果。
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What role for the ‘long arm of childhood’ in social gradients in health? An international comparison of high-income contexts “童年长臂”在健康的社会梯度中扮演什么角色?高收入背景下的国际比较
IF 0.9 4区 社会学 Q4 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.1332/175795920x16025975665508
Steven A. Haas, Zhangjun Zhou, Katsuya Oi
Social gradients in health have been a focus of research for decades. Two important lines of social gradient research have examined (1) international variation in their magnitude and (2) their life course / developmental antecedents. The present study brings these two strands together to explore the developmental origins of educational gradients in health. We leverage data spanning 14 high-income contexts from the Health and Retirement Study and its sisters in Europe. We find that early-life health and socio-economic status consistently attenuate educational gradients in multimorbidity and functional limitation. However, the relative contribution of early-life factors to gradients varies substantially across contexts. The results suggest that research on social gradients, and population health broadly, would benefit from the unique insights available from a conceptual and empirical approach that integrates comparative and life course perspectives.
几十年来,健康的社会梯度一直是研究的焦点。社会梯度研究的两条重要路线检查了(1)其大小的国际差异和(2)其生命历程/发展前因。本研究将这两方面结合起来,探讨健康教育梯度的发展起源。我们利用了来自欧洲健康与退休研究及其姊妹项目的14个高收入背景的数据。我们发现,生命早期健康和社会经济地位持续减弱多病和功能限制的教育梯度。然而,不同环境下,早期生活因素对梯度的相对贡献差异很大。结果表明,对社会梯度和广泛的人口健康的研究将受益于结合比较和生命过程观点的概念和经验方法所提供的独特见解。
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Introduction to the special issue: Prospective qualitative research: new directions, opportunities and challenges 专题导论:前瞻性质的研究:新的方向、机遇和挑战
IF 0.9 4区 社会学 Q4 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.1332/175795920x16032960406152
L. Bernardi, Núria Sánchez‐Mira
The combination of qualitative approaches and longitudinal research designs is a powerful way to explore changes in individual life courses as they occur. While qualitative research is mostly associated with retrospective studies that analyse lives ‘backwards’ in time, prospective qualitative studies that track lives as they unfold have grown in popularity over the past two decades. Their increased importance goes hand in hand with the growing attention in the social sciences to process and change versus stability and continuity through time. Prospective qualitative studies are uniquely suited to analysing continuity and change in people’s lives, offering a complex understanding of critical junctures, transitions and gradual, non-linear or contradictory processes of change as they are interpreted and revisited by individuals with the unfolding of their lives. With its intrinsic focus on time and temporalities, prospective qualitative research allows us to address not only changing meanings and perceptions, but how people examine their pasts and look into their futures, and how these temporal perspectives are modified along with life events and transitions. Together with its undoubted advantages, a range of analytical and methodological challenges arise in the process of engaging with participants in a prospective qualitative study, where time, lives, perceptions and meanings are continually shifting and under revision. The benefits of combining prospective and retrospective insights and meanings involve a complex and demanding analytical effort that addresses potentially emerging discrepancies in the reporting of the same event or transition. The notion of a linear temporality that structures social action needs to be reconciled with narratives that reflect the fluidity of past and future time, stagnation, zigzag or even reversible developments. Questions of archiving are a source of concern for researchers whose data sets are iteratively generated over time, raising issues about consent, anonymity and ownership. Ethical issues also sharpen as the level of personal involvement between researcher and participant increases with repeated interactions across the different waves. With the increased availability of qualitative prospective studies, there is a growing agreement about the benefits of using secondary data. Arguments about research costs and underexploitation of existing data are gaining ground against the traditional reluctance of qualitative researchers to make their data available for reuse. There is, hence, an emerging need to reflect on the strategies and practices of data creation and management for long-term storage and use by others. In parallel, challenges of combining different data sources with similar foci for analytical and comparative purposes are increasingly recognised. These are just a few of the challenges facing prospective qualitative researchers, but they clearly point to the need for further methodological reflection
定性方法和纵向研究设计的结合是探索个体生命历程变化的有力方法。虽然定性研究大多与回顾性研究有关,这些研究是在时间上“向后”分析生活,但在过去20年里,追踪生活发展的前瞻性定性研究越来越受欢迎。它们日益增加的重要性与社会科学对过程和变化与稳定和连续性的日益关注密切相关。前瞻性定性研究特别适合于分析人们生活中的连续性和变化,提供对关键节点、过渡和渐进、非线性或矛盾的变化过程的复杂理解,因为它们是由个人随着生活的展开而解释和重新审视的。由于其内在的关注时间和时间性,前瞻性定性研究使我们不仅能够解决不断变化的意义和观念,而且能够解决人们如何审视他们的过去并展望他们的未来,以及这些时间视角如何随着生活事件和转变而改变。在与参与者进行前瞻性定性研究的过程中,伴随着其无可置疑的优势,一系列分析和方法上的挑战也出现了,因为时间、生活、观念和意义都在不断地变化和修订。结合前瞻性和回顾性的见解和意义的好处涉及到复杂和苛刻的分析工作,以解决在同一事件或转换的报告中潜在出现的差异。构建社会行动的线性时间性的概念需要与反映过去和未来时间的流动性、停滞、曲折甚至可逆发展的叙事相协调。归档问题是研究人员关注的一个问题,他们的数据集是随着时间的推移而迭代生成的,引发了关于同意、匿名和所有权的问题。随着研究人员和参与者之间的个人参与水平随着不同浪潮的重复互动而增加,伦理问题也会变得尖锐。随着定性前瞻性研究的增加,越来越多的人认同使用二手数据的好处。关于研究成本和对现有数据利用不足的争论正在获得支持,而定性研究人员传统上不愿让他们的数据可供重用。因此,有必要反思数据创建和管理的战略和做法,以供他人长期储存和使用。同时,越来越多的人认识到,为了分析和比较的目的,将不同的数据来源与类似的重点结合起来是一项挑战。这些只是未来定性研究人员面临的挑战中的一小部分,但它们清楚地指出,需要对时间如何影响定性纵向研究的设计、实施和理论基础进行进一步的方法学反思。这期特刊通过一系列国际和跨学科的贡献,推进了当前的辩论,并探索了该领域新的理论和方法方向。
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Ethnic differences in height growth trajectories and early life factors: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study 身高增长轨迹和早期生活因素的种族差异:英国千年队列研究的发现
IF 0.9 4区 社会学 Q4 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI: 10.1332/175795919x15719917311075
Yi Lu, A. Pearce, Leah Li
Height growth is an important biomarker for early life exposures that influence later disease risk. Previous studies show that ethnic minority children in the UK tend to be born lighter but experience more rapid infancy growth than White peers. However, whether subsequent child-to-adolescent growth differs by ethnic group is insufficiently understood. We used the data from 15,239 singletons in the UK Millennium Cohort Study and applied mixed-effects cubic growth models to examine ethnic differences in height trajectories between 3y and 14y. Models were subsequently adjusted for potential early life explanatory factors. Compared with White counterparts, South Asian children had lower birthweight and shorter parents on average, but were slightly taller at 3y by 0.5cm [95% CI: 0.2–0.9] and had comparable childhood and adolescent trajectories, except that girls had a slower growth in adolescence. Height of South Asians relative to White children increased after adjusting for birthweight (taller by 1.3cm at 3y). Black African/Caribbeans were taller than White children at all ages between 3y and 14y (at 3y boys: 2.2cm, 1.2–2.7; girls: 3.2cm, 2.6–3.8) with height differences widening in childhood and reducing in adolescence. Adjustment for potential explanatory factors did not alter these differences. Despite having lower birthweight, contemporary UK South Asian children had comparable child-to-adolescent growth as White children. Black African/Caribbeans were considerably taller than other ethnic groups. Future research is needed in understanding the role of genetic and other environmental factors (such as diet) in these distinct growth patterns across ethnic groups and their health implications.
身高增长是影响后期疾病风险的早期暴露的重要生物标志物。先前的研究表明,与白人同龄人相比,英国少数民族儿童出生时往往更轻,但婴儿期发育更快。然而,人们对儿童到青少年的后续成长是否因种族而有所不同还不够了解。我们使用了英国千禧年队列研究中15239名单身人士的数据,并应用混合效应三次增长模型来检验3岁和14岁之间身高轨迹的种族差异。模型随后针对潜在的早期生命解释因素进行了调整。与白人相比,南亚儿童的出生体重较低,父母平均较短,但在3岁时略高0.5厘米[95%CI:0.2-0.9],儿童和青少年的轨迹相似,只是女孩在青春期的生长较慢。南亚儿童相对于白人儿童的身高在调整出生体重后有所增加(3岁时高1.3厘米)。在3岁至14岁的所有年龄段,非洲黑人/加勒比人都比白人儿童高(3岁男孩:2.2厘米,1.2–2.7;女孩:3.2厘米,2.6–3.8),儿童期身高差异扩大,青春期身高差异缩小。对潜在解释因素的调整并没有改变这些差异。尽管出生体重较低,但当代英国南亚儿童的儿童和青少年发育情况与白人儿童相当。非洲黑人/加勒比人比其他种族要高得多。未来的研究需要了解遗传和其他环境因素(如饮食)在这些不同种族群体的不同生长模式中的作用及其对健康的影响。
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