Relation of Performance on the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test with the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test—Revised among Preschool Children

Childers, J. Stephen; Durham, Thomas W.; Wilson, Stephanie

doi:10.2466/pms.1994.79.3.1195

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“…A limitation of our analysis may be the PPVT-R, which despite being validated against other standard intelligence tests for children and considered a strong indicator of verbal intelligence (Childers, et al, 1994;Dunn, 1981;Johnson, et al, 1993;Jongsma, 1982), provides a less comprehensive measure of childhood intelligence than can be obtained by alternative tests such as the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) (Wechsler, 1974). However our findings were very similar to previous findings using the WISC-R (Breslau, et al, 2006), which points to the robustness of the PPVT-R as a measure of IQ at least for the purpose of this study.…”

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“…A limitation of our analysis may be the PPVT-R, which despite being validated against other standard intelligence tests for children and considered a strong indicator of verbal intelligence (Childers, et al, 1994;Dunn, 1981;Johnson, et al, 1993;Jongsma, 1982), provides a less comprehensive measure of childhood intelligence than can This is a post-print version of the following article: Betts, Kim Steven, Williams, Gail M., Najman, Jacob M., Pre-trauma verbal ability at five years of age and the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder in adult males and females. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 46 7: 933-939.…”

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“…The test requires the examinee to indicate which one of four pictures best describes a word which the examiner expresses verbally, with the resulting score used as a measure of the subject's verbal intelligence (Jongsma, 1982). The PPVT-R has been validated against other standardised intelligence tests used on children (Childers, Durham, & Wilson, 1994;Dunn, 1981;Johnson, Howie, Owen, Baldwin, & Luttman, 1993). …”

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Pre-trauma verbal ability at five years of age and the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder in adult males and females

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Williams

Najman

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Journal of Psychiatric Research

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Pre-trauma verbal ability at five years of age and the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder in adult males and females Abstract word count is 212 words.Main text word count is 4,000 words.There are 4 tables and 1 figure.There is a supplementary section consisting of 91 words and 1 table.Kim S. Betts, MPH, BEd. School of Population Abstract:Previous studies have shown that high cognitive ability, measured in childhood and prior to the experience of traumatic events, is protective of PTSD development. Our aim was to test if the association between pre-trauma verbal ability ascertained at 5 years with DSM-IV lifetime post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at 21 years was subject to effect modification by gender, trauma type or prior behaviour problems. Using a prospective birth cohort of young Australians, we found that both trauma type and behaviour problems did not change the association between cognitive ability and PTSD. During multivariate analysis, testing for the interactive effect of gender revealed that verbal ability was linearly and inversely associated with PTSD in females only, with those in the lowest verbal ability quintile having strongly increased odds of PTSD (OR = 3.89: 95% CI; 1.50, 10.10) compared with those in the highest quintile. A graph of the interaction revealed lower verbal ability placed females, but not males, at an increased risk of PTSD . Our results indicate that that lower verbal ability in early childhood is a vulnerability factor for PTSD in females but not in males, and suggest that lower verbal ability may constitute a gender-specific risk factor responsible for part of the increased risk of PTSD found in females compared with males.Key words: Post-traumatic stress disorders, cognitive functioning, gender Background:4 This is a post-print version of the following article: Betts, Kim Steven, Williams, Gail M., Najman, Jacob M., Bor, William and Alati, Rosa (2012) Pre-trauma verbal ability at five years of age and the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder in adult males and females. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 46 7: 933-939.Epidemiological research has found an inverse relationship between cognitive ability with morbidity and mortality. Individuals with a lower cognitive ability have an increased risk of a number of conditions in later life including schizophrenia (Zammit et al., 2004), depression, hypertension, lung disease (Der, Batty, & Deary, 2009), increased depression persistence and comorbidity (Koenen, et al., 2009). However, the mechanisms by which cognitive ability may lead to a decline in individual health outcomes over time remains unclear and intercorrelated with a number of environmental and developmental factors. For this reason, even studies which have conducted extensive cognitive testing prior to the onset of poor health (pre-morbid testing) and controlled for important related affects including socioeconomic position (SEP), familial circumstances and indicators of fetal and child development are unable to completely rule out possible residual confoundin...

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“…A limitation of our analysis may be the PPVT-R, which despite being validated against other standard intelligence tests for children and considered a strong indicator of verbal intelligence (Childers, et al, 1994;Dunn, 1981;Johnson, et al, 1993;Jongsma, 1982), provides a less comprehensive measure of childhood intelligence than can This is a post-print version of the following article: Betts, Kim Steven, Williams, Gail M., Najman, Jacob M., Pre-trauma verbal ability at five years of age and the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder in adult males and females. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 46 7: 933-939.…”

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“…The test correlates well with other measures of vocabulary and general ability tests for young children, including the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (Childers et al 1994) and the Stanford Binet Test -Fourth Edition (Johnson et al 1993). The PPVT-R and all other tests were carried out by JH.…”

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Executive function of children with extremely low birthweight: a case control study

Harvey¹,

O’Callaghan

Mohay

1999

Develop Med Child Neuro

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This study examines the executive function (EF) skills of extremely‐low‐birthweight (ELBW) children at school compared with their peers. Thirty children with ELBW and 50 control children (both with a mean age of 62 ±4 months) were administered tests of EF including the Tower of Hanoi task, Finger Sequencing task, and Tapping Test. Children with ELBW, including those who scored more than 1 SD below the mean on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test – Revised, scored significantly lower than their peers on all executive tasks. There was limited correlation between EF and previous general quotient index scores obtained at routine assessment using the McCarthy Scales of General Ability at 4 years of age for the children with ELBW. Results suggest that children with ELBW are at risk for deficits in‘executive’behaviours including planning, sequencing, and inhibition which may have implications for later learning.

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“…The test requires the examinee to indicate which one of four pictures best describes a word which the examiner expresses verbally, with the resulting score providing a standardised measure of receptive vocabulary development that does not rely on expressive language skills (286). The PPVT-R has been validated against other standardised intelligence tests used on children (287)(288)(289).…”

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Early life course determinants of psychopathology

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Background: Mental health problems are associated with a range of adverse outcomes as well as increased risk of later morbidity and premature mortality. Help seeking is uncommon at the early stages of mental health problems. Rather, treatment is often sought by patients after illnesses have already caused considerable distress or had substantial adverse personal, social and economic impacts. The purpose of the current work is to investigate the role of a number of early life course risk factors in the development of later psychopathology, using advanced statistical and epidemiological approaches applied to longitudinal data to ascertain predictive and causal pathways. The overall scope of this thesis is to provide the evidence necessary for developing primary and secondary prevention programs aimed at reducing the burden of mental illness on society. Aim 1:To investigate the role of intrauterine growth restriction in increasing the risk of psychiatric disorders characterised by negative affectivity. Aim 2:To investigate the potential for a transmission of maternal psychopathology to offspring. Aim 3:To assess whether maternal prenatal infection and exposure to stressful life events predict positive psychotic experiences in the offspring directly, or indirectly via postnatal risks and antecedents of psychosis. Aim 4:To investigate potential risk factors for the increased rates of female post-traumatic stress disorders, including gender-specific vulnerability resulting from physical assault and cognitive ability. Methods:The data came from the Mater University Study of Pregnancy (MUSP), a prospective pre-birth cohort study which began in 1981 at the Mater Hospital in Brisbane, Australia. The baseline sample consisted of 7,223 pregnant women attending their first obstetric visit for that pregnancy. Since then follow-ups over 21 years have prospectively ascertained a range of health related data on both mother and child. The current work uses predictor variables and covariates from every measurement period, and behaviour and mental health measures ascertained from the offspring at ages 14 and 21 years. A number of statistical and methodological approaches were applied to estimate the longitudinal association between a number of early life course risk factors and later psychopathology, and to account for attrition. Key findings:The relationship between birth weight and later psychopathology was specific to particular psychiatric diagnoses, namely Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders, and comorbid Major Depression and Generalised Anxiety Disorders. The combination of maternal prenatal depressive, anxious and stress symptoms predicted increased internalising and externalising behaviour problems in adolescent and adult offspring. Prenatal maternal infections and stressful life events predicted later offspring psychotic experiences via the intermediaries of early infant illness iii susceptibility and child behaviour problems respectively. The risk of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder associated with physical assault and ...

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Relation of Performance on the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test with the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test—Revised among Preschool Children

Cited by 50 publications

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Pre-trauma verbal ability at five years of age and the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder in adult males and females

Pre-trauma verbal ability at five years of age and the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder in adult males and females

Executive function of children with extremely low birthweight: a case control study

Early life course determinants of psychopathology

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