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Title: A Multilevel Approach to the Relationship Between Birth Order and Intelligence
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Wichman, Aaron L. Rodgers, Joseph Lee MacCallum, Robert C. |
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A Multilevel Approach to the Relationship Between Birth Order and Intelligence Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 32,1 (January 2006): 117-127 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: Society for Personality and Social Psychology Keyword(s): Birth Order; Intelligence; Modeling, Multilevel; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Many studies show relationships between birth order and intelligence but use cross-sectional designs or manifest other threats to internal validity. Multilevel analyses with a control variable show that when these threats are removed, two major results emerge: (a) birth order has no significant influence on children's intelligence and (b) earlier reported birth order effects on intelligence are attributable to factors that vary between, not within, families. Analyses on 7- to 8 - and 13- to 14-year-old children from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth support these conclusions. When hierarchical data structures, age variance of children, and within-family versus between-family variance sources are taken into account, previous research is seen in a new light. |
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Wichman, Aaron L., Joseph Lee Rodgers and Robert C. MacCallum. "A Multilevel Approach to the Relationship Between Birth Order and Intelligence ." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 32,1 (January 2006): 117-127.
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