In the current study, data from twins were analyzed to estimate developmental trajectories of Attention Problems.
This is the first study that investigates trajectories of Attention Problems in middle childhood in the general population.
Our aim was to identify subgroups of children with specific developmental trajectories of Attention Problems from ages 6 to 12 years.
The first aim of this study was to identify developmental trajectories of Attention Problems in twins followed from age 6 to 12 years.
As our results and interpretations apply only to children in the age range 6 12 years, future research should extend our findings by describing trajectories of Attention Problems from childhood to adulthood.
For example, maternal directive parenting seems to improve executive functioning in preterm-born, one year old infants (Van de Weijer-Bergsma E, Wijnroks L, Van Haastert IC, Boom J, Jongmans MJ: Maternal interactive styles and individual differences in developmental trajectories of attention and executive functioning in infants born preterm, submitted).
The inherent unpredictability of the trajectory of future change focuses attention on ethical dealing in the everyday present, which should not be subordinated to uncertain future goals.
In INN, we find a major shift of attention in the main trajectory, from macroeconomic issues to business-oriented research.
Later (in an exact reversal of Traba's trajectory), her attention turned to Constructivist art in which the political content, if it exists, is far more oblique.
Trajectories were expected to reflect slightly decreasing levels of Attention Problems late in childhood, as self-regulation increases with beginning puberty [ 3].
Alternatively, a better understanding of the conditions under which slower disengagement of attention is measured might point to alternative trajectories of cortical specialization (not for faces or biological movement but for predictable, mechanical stimuli; Johnson et al., in press).
