Pupils with mild mental retardation in regular Swedish schools: prevalence, objective characteristics, and subjective evaluations.
Pupils in regular Swedish schools who met the psychometric criterion of mental retardation were identified and described. Using a national longitudinal data set, we compared a group of 13-year-old pupils (N = 116) not officially classified as having mental retardation to their peers without mental retardation across measures of school achievement, social background, self-evaluations of school experiences, and upper secondary school education. The results showed that the former group was low-achieving and had poor self-evaluations; however, some pupils in the general population shared these characteristics.
Department of Psychiatry, University of Uppsala, Sweden.
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D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D007360:Intelligence; D007361:Intelligence Tests; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents; D015995:Prevalence; D011594:Psychometrics; D012073:Remedial Teaching; D012574:Schools; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013548:Sweden