A Study of Basic Competence Test Scores in Relation to Maternal Age at Childbearing and Other Correlates and Their Relationships to Behavioural Outcome

• Main Authors: Pei-chihSung, 宋佩芝
• Other Authors: Kow-Tong Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/31455182671204946982

碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 公共衛生研究所 === 98 === Background：According to the longitudinal study over the past decade, children born to the adolescent mothers had lower intelligence test scores, more behavioral problems, and poorer academic performance at the first and sixth grades of the elementary school compared with those born to the adult mothers. At the second and third years of the junior high school, attention deficits among the boys born to the adolescent mothers still persisted. Internal behavior problems such as attention deficits, anxiety and depression intensified among the girls born to the adolescent mothers. Materials and method：Study with purposive sampling at 2002, 12 elementary schools in the first and second years of An-Nan district of Tainan city were recruited. Selected for the birth maternal age ? 20 (n = 123) and control group for maternal age ＞20 with the same class, same grade and same sex(n = 122). Junior High School Basic Competence Test (BCT) include Chinese, English, Mathematics, Science, Society and Writing. Results：The children born to the adult mothers in the BCT performance is significantly higher than the children born to the adolescent mothers, and boy is worse than girl. And adolescent mothers’ children have about fiftypercent in BCT of last quarter of candidates ranked in the country. Controlling for child-bearing age of mother show mother's education, children living, training children reading habits, to provide academic assistance are still important factors. Training children reading habits and children sex result in BCT performance of adolescent mothers group differences.All subjects of two groups is negative correlated with CBCL,TRF. In YSR,boys born to the adolescent mothers is positive correlated with BCT performance, especially anxious / depressed internalizing behavior problems. Girls have more social problems and delinquent behavior associated with BCT performance, while boys have more anxious / depressed and thought problems. Conclusions：Maternal Age at Childbearing continue to have influence on students BCT. Controlling for child-bearing age of mother, maternal education and parent-child interaction level (training children reading habits, to provide academic assistance) as the main factors causing differences between the two groups.In adolescent mothers groups training children reading habits can promote outstanding BCT performance. We suggest that the government provide more academic help for students and father parenting education, and we encourage fathers involved more to children lives stimulating intellectual and behavioral positive development.