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Measuring the combined risk to young children's cognitive development: An alternative to cumulative indices

Measuring the combined risk to young children's cognitive development: An alternative to cumulative indices
Measuring the combined risk to young children's cognitive development: An alternative to cumulative indices

In studies of child development, the combined effect of multiple risks acting in unison has been represented in a variety of ways. This investigation builds upon this preceding work and presents a new procedure for capturing the combined effect of multiple risks. A representative sample of 2,899 British children had their cognitive development measured at 36 and 58 months of age along with 10 potential risks during this period of development. Comparing a cumulative index of these risks against the previously undocumented alternative of confirmatory factor analysis using formative measurement, this study found differences favouring the factor analysis. The factor analysis procedure demonstrated greater predictive power of children's cognitive development while it systematically tested two of the assumptions implicit in cumulative risk indices.

0261-510X
219-238
Hall, James E.
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Hall, James E., Sammons, Pam, Sylva, Kathy, Melhuish, Edward, Taggart, Brenda, Siraj-Blatchford, Iram and Smees, Rebecca (2010) Measuring the combined risk to young children's cognitive development: An alternative to cumulative indices. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 28 (2), 219-238. (doi:10.1348/026151008X399925).

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In studies of child development, the combined effect of multiple risks acting in unison has been represented in a variety of ways. This investigation builds upon this preceding work and presents a new procedure for capturing the combined effect of multiple risks. A representative sample of 2,899 British children had their cognitive development measured at 36 and 58 months of age along with 10 potential risks during this period of development. Comparing a cumulative index of these risks against the previously undocumented alternative of confirmatory factor analysis using formative measurement, this study found differences favouring the factor analysis. The factor analysis procedure demonstrated greater predictive power of children's cognitive development while it systematically tested two of the assumptions implicit in cumulative risk indices.

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Published date: June 2010

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Local EPrints ID: 414671
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/414671
ISSN: 0261-510X
PURE UUID: 2bb77c96-1a71-49f5-a541-75eecfea9a7d
ORCID for James E. Hall: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-8002-0922

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Author: James E. Hall ORCID iD
Author: Pam Sammons
Author: Kathy Sylva
Author: Edward Melhuish
Author: Brenda Taggart
Author: Iram Siraj-Blatchford
Author: Rebecca Smees

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