Attentional and self-regulatory difficulties of Romanian orphans ten years after being adopted to Canada: a longitudinal study
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Abstract
This thesis was designed to examine the attentional and self-regulatory difficulties of Romanian orphans 10 years after experiencing at least 9 months of severe deprivation in Romanian institutions early in life.It is part of the third phase of a longitudinal study examining the overall development of these children.Attention and self-regulatory difficulties of the 10.5 year old Romanian orphanage children (RO; n=36) were compared to two other groups of children: a sample of Canadian born (CB; n=42) non-adopted children and a group of early-adopted (EA; n=25) Romanian children who were adopted prior to four months of age.In addition, the stability of attentional and self-regulatory difficulties experienced by the RO group from Phase 2 to Phase 3, and predictors of attentional and self-regulatory difficulties from Phase 1 and Phase 2 to Phase 3 were examined.As a group the Romanian orphans were found to show more difficulties than children in the other groups on all measures of attention and self-regulation with the exception of activity level.Within the RO group attentional and self-regulatory difficulties were found to be highly stable from age 4.5 to 10.5 years.Significant positive correlations were found between length of time in an institution prior to adoption and attention problems at age 10.5 years.Number of developmental delays assessed at 11 months post-adoption was also significantly correlated with attentional and selfregulation difficulties at age 10.5 years.Support and stimulation in the home at age 4.5 years was found to be predictive of several measures of attentional and self-regulatory difficulties at age 10.5 years.Results are discussed in terms of environmental influences on the development of attentional and self-regulatory abilities.Attention iv DEDICATION This thesis is dedicated to all the children and families who have shared their stories, lives and experiences to make this research possible and to contribute to the understanding of child development.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".