A closer look at the role of parenting-related influences on verbal intelligence over the life course: Results from an adoption-based research design

Intelligence

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 179-187

  Beaver, Kevin M ^a,b   Schwartz, Joseph A ^c   Al Ghamdi, Mohammed Said ^b   Kobeisy, Ahmed Nezar ^b   Dunkel, Curtis S ^d   van der Linden, Dimitri ^e  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^d WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Add Health; Adoption; Family; Intelligence; Parenting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903837950     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2014.06.002     Document Type: Article

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