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Bayley‐III: Cultural differences and language scale validity in a Danish sample
Author(s) -
Krogh Marianne T.,
Væver Mette S.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/sjop.12333
Subject(s) - danish , psychology , bayley scales of infant development , scale (ratio) , developmental psychology , percentile , test (biology) , clinical psychology , cognition , psychomotor learning , linguistics , psychiatry , statistics , paleontology , philosophy , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , biology
The purpose of this study was to investigate cultural differences between Danish and American children at 2 and 3 years as measured with the developmental test Bayley‐ III , and to investigate the Bayley‐ III Language Scale validity. The Danish children (N = 43) were tested with the Bayley‐ III and their parents completed an additional language questionnaire (the MacArthur‐Bates CDI ). Results showed that scores from the Danish children did not differ significantly from the American norms on the Cognitive or Motor Scale, but the Danish sample scored significantly higher on the Language Scale. A comparison of the Bayley‐ III Language subtests with the CDI showed that the two measures correlated significantly, but the percentile score from the CDI was significantly higher than the percentile score from the Bayley‐ III Language subtests. This could be because the two instruments measure slightly different areas of language development, or because the Bayley‐ III overestimates language development in Danish children. However, due to the limitations of the current study, further research is needed to clarify this issue.