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Peer reviewedPoresky, Robert H.; Henderson, Michael L. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
The relationships between infants' development and their home environment, mothers' attitudes as parents, mothers' mental adjustment, and families' socioeconomic status were studied. Indices of intellectual and psychomotor development were related to home environment, socioeconomic status, and maternal attitudes. The implications of these…
Descriptors: Infants, Intellectual Development, Mothers, Parent Attitudes
Peer reviewedWilson, Ronald S.; Matheny, Adam P., Jr. – Intelligence, 1983
Assessments of the home environments of 116 families whose twins were participants in a longitudinal study of early mental development were conducted. Predictions of offspring intelligence scores increased from ages six months to six years old. Although home/family variables were related to mental development, so were parental education and SES.…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Influence, Genetics
