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Scarr, Sandra – 1986
Research has shown that differences among ordinary people in intelligence and personality depend equally on individual genetic variability and on differences in the environments that siblings experience within the same family, not differences in the neighborhood, school, and community environments. As of yet, there are no adequate theories to…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Family Environment, Family Relationship, Heredity
Peer reviewedMolfese, Victoria J.; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1997
Examined 128 children for contributions of biomedical risk conditions, SES, and HOME scores to prediction of intelligence, and association of extreme scores on HOME and SES to intelligence-test performance. Found home environment was the most important predictor of intelligence at all ages, with SES showing a smaller effect beginning at age 5.…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Biomedicine, Children, Family Environment
Peer reviewedDeFries, J. C.; And Others – Intelligence, 1981
Results from the Colorado Adoption Project, a longitudinal study initiated in 1975, are reported. The cognitive ability of parents and measures of one-year olds' mental development were significantly correlated for all three parent/child comparisons. Caldwell's HOME Responsibility measure was correlated with infant intelligence in adoptive and…
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Adults, Cognitive Measurement, Correlation
Peer reviewedEspy, Kimberly Andrews; Molfese, Victoria J.; DiLalla, Lisabeth F. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 2001
Examined effects of different environmental measures on individual intellectual growth patterns. Growth curve analyses revealed that HOME scores exerted a constant influence on the expected composite, verbal, and nonverbal intellectual skills at each age. Only SES influenced the rate of growth, specifically nonverbal intellectual skills. (Author)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Environment, Environmental Influences, Family Environment
Download full textLong, Barbara H.; Henderson, Edmund H. – 1970
The major interest of this study is the amount of time children spend reading. Data was gathered unobtrusively by having the 150 5th grade subjects keep time records of all their activities for a 2 week period. These were coded into 7 categories and scores were related to those derived from tests of ability, achievement, self-concept and reading…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Elementary School Students
Nuttall, Ronald L.; Nuttall, Ena Vazquez – 1978
This study focuses on the effects of family size and spacing on intellectual, social, and personality development of children. The sample consisted of 533 suburban, middle class, large family (five or more) and small two child family children. The children, 233 boys and 300 girls, were teenagers attending either junior or senior high school.…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Age Differences, Behavioral Science Research, Birth Order
