Sex differences on the WISC-R in Belgium and The Netherlands

Intelligence

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 48-67

  van der Sluis, Sophie ^a   Derom, Catherine ^b   Thiery, Evert ^c   Bartels, Meike ^a   Polderman, Tinca J C ^a,d   Verhulst, F C ^d   Jacobs, Nele ^c   van Gestel, Sofie ^c   de Geus, Eco J C ^a   Dolan, Conor V ^e   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a   Posthuma, Danielle ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c Association for Scientific Research in Multiple Births   (Belgium)

^d SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Intelligence; Measurement invariance; Multi group covariance and mean structure analysis; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 37349121153     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2007.01.003     Document Type: Article

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