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Title: Home Environment and Maternal Intelligence as Predictors of Verbal Intelligence: A Comparison of Preschool and School Age Children
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1. Luster, Thomas
Dubow, Eric F.
Home Environment and Maternal Intelligence as Predictors of Verbal Intelligence: A Comparison of Preschool and School Age Children
Merrill-Palmer Quarterly 38,2 (April 1992): 151-175.
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Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Child Development; Children; Children, Academic Development; Children, Home Environment; General Assessment; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Intelligence; Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT)

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ERIC document: EJ441933

This study examines the extent to which home environment and maternal intelligence are predictive of verbal intelligence in two groups of children -- 3-5 year-olds and 6-8 year-olds. Data on approximately 2000 children from the NLSY merged mother-child data set were used for this study. Hierarchical regression was used to assess the relative contribution of home environment and maternal intelligence to children's verbal intelligence as measured by the PPVT-R. For both groups of children, there was a significant relation between home environment and children's verbal intelligence when the effect of maternal intelligence was statistically controlled. Likewise, maternal intelligence was a significant predictor of PPVT-R scores when the effect of home environment was partialled out. For the preschoolers, the effects of home environment and maternal intelligence were of comparable magnitude. For the elementary school children, maternal intelligence was a stronger predictor of PPVT-R scores than home environment. A developmental perspective is used to explain why earlier studies examining these relations have produced inconsistent results.

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Luster, Thomas and Eric F. Dubow. "Home Environment and Maternal Intelligence as Predictors of Verbal Intelligence: A Comparison of Preschool and School Age Children." Merrill-Palmer Quarterly 38,2 (April 1992): 151-175.