Task Orientation, Parental Warmth and SES Account for a Significant Proportion of the Shared Environmental Variance in General Cognitive Ability in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Twin Study

Autor/inn/en	Petrill, Stephen A.; Deater-Deckard, Kirby
Titel	Task Orientation, Parental Warmth and SES Account for a Significant Proportion of the Shared Environmental Variance in General Cognitive Ability in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Twin Study
Quelle	In: Developmental Science, 7 (2004) 1, S.25-32 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-755X
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-7687.2004.00319.x
Schlagwörter	Twins; Young Children; Environmental Influences; Cognitive Ability; Socioeconomic Status; Socioeconomic Influences; Foreign Countries; Parent Child Relationship; Child Development; Correlation; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Twin; Zwilling; Frühe Kindheit; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Denkfähigkeit; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Ausland; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Kindesentwicklung; Korrelation; Großbritannien
Abstract	Prior research suggests shared environmental influences on cognitive performance are important in early childhood. However, few studies have attempted to identify the factors comprising this shared environmental variance. To address this issue, we examined the covariance between task orientation, parental warmth, socioeconomic status and general cognitive ability in a British twin study of 125 pairs of identical and same-sex fraternal twins. Task orientation correlated r = 0.41 with general cognitive ability. Bivariate genetic analyses suggested that this correlation was mediated by shared environmental influences. Additional analyses suggested that SES and parental warmth mediated about two-thirds of the shared environmental covariance between task engagement and cognitive skills. (As Provided).
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