TY - JOUR
T1 - Body-rocking and other habits of college students and persons with mental retardation
AU - Berkson, Gershon
AU - Rafaeli-Mor, Nilly
AU - Tarnovsky, Sofia
PY - 1999/3
Y1 - 1999/3
N2 - Prevalence of body-rocking in college students was assessed, and the characteristics of body-rocking of college students were compared to those of individuals with mental retardation. For college students, the prevalence depended on the restrictiveness of the method used and varied between 3% and 25%. Video samples showed that when compared with college students, a greater proportion of people with mental retardation engage in body-rocking, seem less sensitive to situational factors, demonstrate atypical collateral behaviors, engage in less leg-kicking, and execute their body-rocking with larger amplitudes. There were no differences in duration or number of individual rocks or bouts of body-rocking. We conclude that body-rocking is a 'normal' behavior whose form of expression may become atypical.
AB - Prevalence of body-rocking in college students was assessed, and the characteristics of body-rocking of college students were compared to those of individuals with mental retardation. For college students, the prevalence depended on the restrictiveness of the method used and varied between 3% and 25%. Video samples showed that when compared with college students, a greater proportion of people with mental retardation engage in body-rocking, seem less sensitive to situational factors, demonstrate atypical collateral behaviors, engage in less leg-kicking, and execute their body-rocking with larger amplitudes. There were no differences in duration or number of individual rocks or bouts of body-rocking. We conclude that body-rocking is a 'normal' behavior whose form of expression may become atypical.
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U2 - 10.1352/0895-8017(1999)104<0107:BAOHOC>2.0.CO;2
DO - 10.1352/0895-8017(1999)104<0107:BAOHOC>2.0.CO;2
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C2 - 10207574
AN - SCOPUS:0032866669
SN - 0895-8017
VL - 104
SP - 107
EP - 116
JO - American Journal on Mental Retardation
JF - American Journal on Mental Retardation
IS - 2
ER -