Birgitte R Mednick
Biographic Data
| ID | 323480 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Birgitte R Mednick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Birgitte R |
| FAMILY NAME | Mednick |
| SIGNATURE | MEDNICK B R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Causal attributions in Brazilian children's reasoning about health and illness
INTRODUCTION: At a time when a great number of diseases can be prevented by changing one's habits and life style, investigations have focused on understanding what adults and children believe to be desirable health practices and uncovering the factors associated with successful adherence to such practices. For these, causal attributions for health and illness were investigated among 96 Brazilian elementary school students. METHODS: Ninety six sub…
Cross-cultural differences in children's concepts of health and illness
INTRODUCTION: In spite of general agreement that cross-cultural research is needed in the health area, most existing investigations of children's development of health and illness-related concepts have involved samples from developed countries. The study examined the development of the concepts of health and illness as a function of subject's age, socio-economic status (SES), gender and grade level in a Brazilian sample of 96 elementary and junio…
Utility of Scales Derived from Teacher Judgements of Adolescent Academic Performance and Psychosocial Behavior
Justification is presented for using teacher judgements of student achievement and psychosocial functioning as "indirect measures" of school-related outcomes. An 18-year follow up study of a Danish birth cohort (N=350), for whom no standardized or "direct" measures were available, was used as the context in which the BAMED Teacher Rating Form was designed and developed. The 106-item Form yielded 23 empirically and logically derived scales with al…
Long-Term Effects of Divorce on Adolescent Academic Achievement
A sample of 77 children who had experienced a divorce in the family during childhood was identified in a group of 350 children who took part in a 18-year follow-up study on the Danish Prospective Perinatal Cohort. Reading and mathematics proficiency measures collected in the 11th and 12th grades were correlated with a set of eight measures derived from an intensive interview of the mothers designed to assess various potential stresses in the soci…
Patterns of family instability and crime
Association of Age, Gender, and Ethnicity with Juvenile Victimization in and Out of School
Long-term effects of parental divorce on young adult male crime
Academic and psychosocial characteristics of low-birthweight adolescents
A sample of 94 children with low birthweights (LBW ≤ 2500 grams) was identified in a group of 857 children who took part in an 18‐year follow‐up study of the Danish Prospective Perinatal Cohort. The LBW group was compared with the rest of the sample on a set of long‐term intellectual and psychosocial outcomes. In addition, the relative predictive power of low birthweight and a set of environmental variables regressed on two adolescent academic ou…
Effects of social, familial, and maternal state variables on neonatal and infant health
On cherche ici a determiner l'influence de la mere, du milieu familial et de l'environnement social sur le poids, la sante physique, le statut neurologique du nouveau-ne et le developpement psychomoteur du nourrisson
Perinatal conditions and infant development in children with schizophrenic parents
A twenty‐year study was begun in Denmark in 1962 of the differential effects of pregnancy and delivery complications on children of schizophrenic parents, on children of normal parents, and on children of parents with nonschizophrenic psychiatric disorders. This paper studies these children and their parents in 1971 utilizing data on pregnancy, delivery, and the physical and neurological examinations of the children at birth and at one year of ag…
Teenage pregnancy and perinatal mortality
Association of Age, Gender, and Ethnicity with Juvenile Victimization in and Out of School
Patterns of family instability and crime
Long-term effects of parental divorce on young adult male crime
Effects of social, familial, and maternal state variables on neonatal and infant health
On cherche ici a determiner l'influence de la mere, du milieu familial et de l'environnement social sur le poids, la sante physique, le statut neurologique du nouveau-ne et le developpement psychomoteur du nourrisson
Causal attributions in Brazilian children's reasoning about health and illness
INTRODUCTION: At a time when a great number of diseases can be prevented by changing one's habits and life style, investigations have focused on understanding what adults and children believe to be desirable health practices and uncovering the factors associated with successful adherence to such practices. For these, causal attributions for health and illness were investigated among 96 Brazilian elementary school students. METHODS: Ninety six sub…
Teenage pregnancy and perinatal mortality
Cross-cultural differences in children's concepts of health and illness
INTRODUCTION: In spite of general agreement that cross-cultural research is needed in the health area, most existing investigations of children's development of health and illness-related concepts have involved samples from developed countries. The study examined the development of the concepts of health and illness as a function of subject's age, socio-economic status (SES), gender and grade level in a Brazilian sample of 96 elementary and junio…
Teenage pregnancy and perinatal mortality
Perinatal conditions and infant development in children with schizophrenic parents
A twenty‐year study was begun in Denmark in 1962 of the differential effects of pregnancy and delivery complications on children of schizophrenic parents, on children of normal parents, and on children of parents with nonschizophrenic psychiatric disorders. This paper studies these children and their parents in 1971 utilizing data on pregnancy, delivery, and the physical and neurological examinations of the children at birth and at one year of ag…
Effects of social, familial, and maternal state variables on neonatal and infant health
On cherche ici a determiner l'influence de la mere, du milieu familial et de l'environnement social sur le poids, la sante physique, le statut neurologique du nouveau-ne et le developpement psychomoteur du nourrisson
Long-term effects of parental divorce on young adult male crime
Academic and psychosocial characteristics of low-birthweight adolescents
A sample of 94 children with low birthweights (LBW ≤ 2500 grams) was identified in a group of 857 children who took part in an 18‐year follow‐up study of the Danish Prospective Perinatal Cohort. The LBW group was compared with the rest of the sample on a set of long‐term intellectual and psychosocial outcomes. In addition, the relative predictive power of low birthweight and a set of environmental variables regressed on two adolescent academic ou…
Association of Age, Gender, and Ethnicity with Juvenile Victimization in and Out of School
Long-Term Effects of Divorce on Adolescent Academic Achievement
A sample of 77 children who had experienced a divorce in the family during childhood was identified in a group of 350 children who took part in a 18-year follow-up study on the Danish Prospective Perinatal Cohort. Reading and mathematics proficiency measures collected in the 11th and 12th grades were correlated with a set of eight measures derived from an intensive interview of the mothers designed to assess various potential stresses in the soci…
Patterns of family instability and crime
Utility of Scales Derived from Teacher Judgements of Adolescent Academic Performance and Psychosocial Behavior
Justification is presented for using teacher judgements of student achievement and psychosocial functioning as "indirect measures" of school-related outcomes. An 18-year follow up study of a Danish birth cohort (N=350), for whom no standardized or "direct" measures were available, was used as the context in which the BAMED Teacher Rating Form was designed and developed. The 106-item Form yielded 23 empirically and logically derived scales with al…
Cross-cultural differences in children's concepts of health and illness
INTRODUCTION: In spite of general agreement that cross-cultural research is needed in the health area, most existing investigations of children's development of health and illness-related concepts have involved samples from developed countries. The study examined the development of the concepts of health and illness as a function of subject's age, socio-economic status (SES), gender and grade level in a Brazilian sample of 96 elementary and junio…
Causal attributions in Brazilian children's reasoning about health and illness
INTRODUCTION: At a time when a great number of diseases can be prevented by changing one's habits and life style, investigations have focused on understanding what adults and children believe to be desirable health practices and uncovering the factors associated with successful adherence to such practices. For these, causal attributions for health and illness were investigated among 96 Brazilian elementary school students. METHODS: Ninety six sub…
Psychology (11 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Demography (4 works) · Pregnancy (4 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (3 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (3 works) · Danish (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Environmental health (3 works)