Childhood IQ of parents related to characteristics of their offspring: linking the Scottish Mental Survey 1932 to the Midspan Family Study

Autor: John M. Starr, Lawrence J. Whalley, Graham Watt, Valerie Wilson, Ian J. Deary, G Davey Smith, David J Hole, Carole L. Hart, Mark N. Upton
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2005
Předmět:
Gerontology
Male
Parents
Intelligence
Psychology
Child
BLOOD-PRESSURE
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
ANTIHYPERTENSIVE TREATMENT
ADOPTION-PROJECT
SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION
0302 clinical medicine
Waist–hip ratio
Risk Factors
Surveys and Questionnaires
030212 general & internal medicine
Prospective Studies
Child
SOCIAL-CLASS
Intelligence Tests
Intelligence quotient
BIRTH COHORT
Smoking
General Social Sciences
Middle Aged
Marital status
Educational Status
Regression Analysis
Female
Lothian Birth Cohort Studies
parental IQ
Psychology
Cohort study
Adult
Offspring
childhood IQ
Psychosocial Deprivation
Social class
03 medical and health sciences
ADULT MORTALITY
Humans
Chi-Square Distribution
Public Health
Environmental and Occupational Health
Lothian birth-cohort studies
COGNITIVE FUNCTION
Scotland
Social Class
CARDIORESPIRATORY DISEASE
SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS
Body mass index
RA
Demography
Zdroj: University of Bristol-PURE
Hart, C L, Deary, I J, Smith, G D, Upton, M N, Whalley, L J, Starr, J, Hole, D J, Wilson, V & Watt, G C M 2005, ' Childhood IQ of parents related to characteristics of their offspring: Linking the Scottish Mental Survey 1932 to the midspan family study ', Journal of Biosocial Science, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 623-639 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932004006923
Europe PubMed Central
ISSN: 0021-9320
DOI: 10.1017/S0021932004006923
Popis: the objective of the study was to investigate the relationship between childhood iq of parents and characteristics of their adult offspring. it was a prospective family cohort study linked to a mental ability survey of the parents and set in renfrew and paisley in scotland. participants were 1921-born men and women who took part in the scottish mental survey in 1932 and the renfrew/paisley study in the 1970s, and whose offspring took part in the midspan family study in 1996. there were 286 offspring from 179 families. parental iq was related to some, but not all characteristics of offspring. greater parental iq was associated with taller offspring. parental iq was inversely related to number of cigarettes smoked by offspring. higher parental iq was associated with better education, offspring social class and offspring deprivation category. there were no significant relationships between parental iq and offspring systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, cholesterol, glucose, lung function, weight, body mass index, waist hip ratio, housing, alcohol consumption, marital status, car use and exercise. structural equation modelling showed parental iq associated with offspring education directly and mediated via parental social class. offspring education was associated with offspring smoking and social class. the smoking finding may have implications for targeting of health education.
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