{"id":8421,"date":"2019-05-22T16:07:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/mid-growth_spurt\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:07:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:07:31","slug":"mid-growth_spurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/mid-growth_spurt\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-growth spurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small acceleration in the rate of growth in height several years prior to the onset of the adolescent growth spurt, usually between 6.5 and 8.5 years of age. &nbsp;Findings for the <a href=\"http:\/\/193.146.160.29\/gtb\/sod\/usu\/$UBUG\/repositorio\/10312992_Molinari.pdf\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/193.146.160.29\/gtb\/sod\/usu\/$UBUG\/repositorio\/10312992_Molinari.pdf&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">First Zurich Longitudinal Study<\/a> show a small, but significant mid-growth spurt in most height and length measurements, as well as pertaining to girth and width (e.g., chest circumference, bi-humeral and bi-iliac width). The spurt appeared to be slightly more pronounced in boys compared to girls. &nbsp;Given that it is quite a small spurt, there need to be <a href=\"http:\/\/193.146.160.29\/gtb\/sod\/usu\/$UBUG\/repositorio\/10312989_Berkey.pdf\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/193.146.160.29\/gtb\/sod\/usu\/$UBUG\/repositorio\/10312989_Berkey.pdf&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statistical techniques<\/a> capable of detecting it. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"adolescent_growth_spurt\">Adolescent growth spurt<\/a>, <a href=\"developmental_acceleration\">Developmental acceleration<\/a>, <a href=\"growth\">Growth<\/a>, Longitudinal studies <\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small acceleration in the rate of growth in height several years prior to the onset of the adolescent growth spurt, usually between 6.5 and 8.5 years of age. &nbsp;Findings for the First Zurich Longitudinal Study show a small, but significant mid-growth spurt in most height and length measurements, as well as pertaining to girth &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/mid-growth_spurt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mid-growth spurt&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}