Does g variance change in adulthood? Testing the age de-differentiation hypothesis across sex

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1525-1532

  Escorial, Sergio ^a   Juan Espinosa, Manuel ^a   Garća, Luis F ^a   Rebollo, Irene ^a   Colom, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adulthood; Age de differentiation hypothesis; g Factor; Indifferentiation hypothesis; Senescence; Sex; Structure of intelligence; WAIS III

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037730221     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(02)00133-2     Document Type: Article

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