Early Brain Damage Affects Body Schema and Person Perception Abilities in Children and Adolescents with Spastic Diplegia

Table 4

Results of the regression models within the SpD group for the body and the letter transformations.

	Dependent variables
	Body transformation delta			Letter transformation delta
	Adj	F8, 16	level	Adj	F8, 16	level
	0.313	2.364	0.068	-0.337	0.240	0.975
	Independent variables			level			level
Gender	-0.425	-2.223	0.041	-0.093	0.350	0.731
Age	0.283	1.437	0.170	0.057	0.208	0.838
Functional asymmetry	0.040	0.200	0.844	-0.352	-1.268	0.223
CVI	-0.113	-0.532	0.602	0.059	0.200	0.844
FSIQ	-0.471	-2.078	0.054	0.229	0.724	0.480
GMFCS	-0.008	-0.034	0.973	-0.077	-0.243	0.811
MACS	-0.049	-0.228	0.823	-0.008	-0.026	0.980
Mean social perception	0.029	0.149	0.883	-0.033	-0.119	0.907

CVI = Cortical Visual Impairment; FSIQ = full-scale intelligent quotient; GMFCS = Gross Motor Function Classification System; MACS = Manual Ability Classification System.