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Peer reviewedKellaghan, Thomas – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1977
Relationships between six home environment measures, achievement and intelligence tests were examined by stepwise multiple regression analyses for a sample of 60 eight-year old children. Home variables were most successful in predicting achievement test scores, less successful regarding culture-dependent intelligence test scores, and least…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education, Family Environment
Peer reviewedWalton, Joan Riley; Nuttall, Ronald L.; Nuttall, Ena Vazquez – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 1997
A study of 54 Salvadoran children (age 12), born in the Salvadoran Civil War, found the personal/social impact of the war was more important than family togetherness or war intensity in determining the mental health of the children. Children's intelligence was highly related to surviving with greater mental health. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Children, Coping, Emotional Disturbances, Environmental Influences
Peer reviewedVelandia, Wilson; And Others – American Educational Research Journal, 1978
According to confluence theory, a child is helped or hindered in intellectual development according to the average absolute intelligence (mental age) in the family when the child is born. An analysis of test scores, family information, and socioeconomic data of 36,000 college applicants in Colombia failed to support this theory. (Author/CP)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Birth Order, College Bound Students, Developing Nations
