Intellectual Characteristics of Korean Children: Analyses of K-WPPSI-IV Performance

박, 혜원; 이, 경옥

doi:10.5723/kjcs.2016.37.6.157

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“…In particular, verbal comprehension shows the biggest difference between the preterm and control groups. Considering that the control group's verbal score was measured to be rather high, at 112.39, our result aligns with previous results showing high verbal scores for Korean children [18]. Additionally, Lee et al [19] found a significant effect of birthweight on verbal comprehension skills, and that a better verbal comprehension skill was associated with higher birth weight regardless of age; considering the fact that preterm infants have lower weight than normal infants, this also aligns with previous research.…”

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Cognitive Function, Emotional and Behavioral Problems, and Temperament of Premature Children

Ahn

Min

Kim

et al. 2019

J Korean Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry

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Objectives: We aimed to compare preterm, neurodevelopmentally disordered and healthy full-term children. Methods: We enrolled 47 children who were born preterm, 40 neurodevelopmentally disordered children, and 80 healthy children as control participants, in order to assess the cognitive functioning and the risk of behavioral problems at the age of 5. Children were assessed using the Korean Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence-4th edition (K-WPPSI-IV), the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), and the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI). Results: The mean K-WPPSI-IV score of the preterm group was 87.19±17.36, which was significantly higher than that of the neurodevelopmental disorder group (69.98±28.63; p<0.001) but lower than that of the control group (107.74±14.21; p<0.001). The cumulative CBCL scores of the preterm children were not significantly different from those of the control group. Additionally, the TCI scores for reward dependence of the preterm children were higher than those of the control group. Conclusion: The cognitive performance of preterm infants was lower than that of healthy full-term infants at the age of 5, and there was an association between slower growth and decreased cognitive ability.

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Cognitive Function, Emotional and Behavioral Problems, and Temperament of Premature Children

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Min

Kim

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J Korean Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry

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“…Likewise, Finland-Swedish clinicians have expressed concerns regarding the verbal subtests (Rosenqvist et al, 2022). Similar results have been found for South Korean children, who performed lower in the verbal subtests than in the nonverbal subtests of WPPSI-IV when scored with American norms (Park & Lee, 2016). Regarding the VAI, which measures basic receptive and expressive language skills (Wechsler, 2012), the Finland-Swedish children’s performance may also reflect the nature of the subtests in this index.…”

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“…Sociodemographic factors, such as education level, are also known to be associated with cross-cultural differences in cognitive test performance (Olson & Jacobson, 2015). For children, parental education level explains a significant proportion of the variance in cognitive test scores, including WPPSI-IV (Eriksen et al, 2013; Park & Lee, 2016; Raiford et al, 2014; Wechsler, 2014). Differences in the education system the child belongs to can also have an effect, which is shown, for example, in international comparisons of educational attainment (Leino et al, 2019; Schleicher, 2019).…”

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“…Cross-cultural comparisons of WPPSI are still scarce. One recent study compared the performance of the South Korean WPPSI-IV normative sample when scored with Korean versus US norms (Park & Lee, 2016). Korean 4-7-year-olds performed lower on most verbal subtests when scored with US norms, which was suggested to be partly due to the cultural loading of some items, since many original questions from the US version were kept in the Korean standardization.…”

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A comparison of WPPSI-IV performance between Finland-Swedish minority children and the Scandinavian test norms: Findings from The FinSwed Study

Salonen,

Slama,

Haavisto

et al. 2023

J Int Neuropsychol Soc

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Objective:The Swedish Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI-IV) is commonly used for assessing young children belonging to the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland (Finland-Swedes), but there is no information about the generalizability of this test and its norms to this minority. Cross-cultural comparisons of WPPSI-IV are also scarce. We compared the performance of Finland-Swedish children to the Scandinavian norms of the Swedish WPPSI-IV and explored the relationship between sociodemographic factors (age, sex, parental education level, bilingualism) and the performance.Method:The Swedish WPPSI-IV was administered to 79 typically developing 5–6-year-old Finland-Swedish children assessed for The FinSwed Study. Their performance was compared to the Scandinavian norms using MANOVA, t-test, and confidence interval comparisons. Associations with sociodemographic variables were explored using regression analyses.Results:Finland-Swedish children performed, on average, 1/3 SD higher than the Scandinavian norms, a difference which was statistically significant with medium-sized effects. However, individual subtests and indexes did not differ significantly from the norms. Significant associations with sociodemographic factors were found for some but not all index scores.Conclusions:This study provides clinically important information for using the Swedish WPPSI-IV with the Finland-Swedish minority and demonstrates aspects that clinicians working with this minority should take into account. The results are presumably partly explained by characteristics of the present sample, and partly by cultural and linguistic differences between the Finland-Swedish population and the Scandinavian countries. The findings also illustrate that cross-cultural differences in cognitive performance may be present even between similar cultures with the same language.

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“…A set of neuropsychological tests was conducted to assess children’s developmental ability before the intervention period. This study employed the Korean-Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (K-WPPSI-IV) [22], a child’s intelligence test that provides a comprehensive assessment of overall intellectual capabilities. The target age of the test is from 1 year and 6 months to 7 years and 7 months.…”

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A Serious Game–Derived Index for Detecting Children With Heterogeneous Developmental Disabilities: Randomized Controlled Trial

Bang

Nam

et al. 2019

JMIR Serious Games

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BackgroundDevelopmental disabilities are a set of heterogeneous delays or difficulties in one or more areas of neuropsychological development. Considering that childhood is an essential stage of brain development and developmental delays lead to personal or social burdens, the early detection of childhood developmental disabilities is important. However, early screening for developmental disabilities has been a challenge because of the fear of positive results, expensive tests, differences in diagnosis depending on examiners’ abilities, and difficulty in diagnosis arising from the need for long-term follow-up observation.ObjectiveThis study aimed to assess the feasibility of using a serious game–derived index to identify heterogeneous developmental disabilities. This study also examines the correlation between the game-derived index and existing neuropsychological test results.MethodsThe randomized controlled trial involved 48 children with either normal development or developmental disabilities. In this clinical trial, we used 19 features (6 from the Korean-Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence, 8 from the Psychoeducational Profile Revised, 2 from the Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency, Second Edition, and 3 from the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory) from neuropsychological tests and 9 (7 game scores, path accuracy, and completion rate) from the serious game, DoBrain. The following analysis was conducted based on participants’ baseline information and neuropsychological test and game-derived index data for one week: (1) we compared the baseline information between the normal development and developmental disabilities groups; (2) then we measured the correlation between the game-derived index and the neuropsychological test scores for each group; and (3) we built a classifier based on the game-derived index with a Gaussian process method and then compared the area under the curve (AUC) with a model based on neuropsychological test results.ResultsA total of 16 children (normal development=9; developmental disabilities=7) were analyzed after selection. Their developmental abilities were assessed before they started to play the serious games, and statistically significant differences were found in both groups. Specifically, the normal development group was more developed than the developmental disabilities group in terms of social function, gross motor function, full-scale IQ, and visual motor imitation, in that order. Similarly, the normal development group obtained a higher score on the game-derived index than the developmental disabilities group. In the correlation analysis between the game-derived index and the neuropsychological tests, the normal development group showed greater correlation with more variables than the developmental disabilities group. The game-derived index–based model had an AUC=0.9, a similar detection value as the neuropsychological test–based model’s AUC=0.86.ConclusionsA game-derived index based on serious games can detect children with heterogenous de...

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Intellectual Characteristics of Korean Children: Analyses of K-WPPSI-IV Performance

Cited by 4 publications

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Cognitive Function, Emotional and Behavioral Problems, and Temperament of Premature Children

Cognitive Function, Emotional and Behavioral Problems, and Temperament of Premature Children

A comparison of WPPSI-IV performance between Finland-Swedish minority children and the Scandinavian test norms: Findings from The FinSwed Study

A Serious Game–Derived Index for Detecting Children With Heterogeneous Developmental Disabilities: Randomized Controlled Trial

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