caa a22 4500 475799542 CHVBK 20180406123733.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1010254918997 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1010254918997 Parental Education and Child's Verbal IQ in Adoptive and Biological Families in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health [Elektronische Daten] [Michelle Neiss, David Rowe] This study compared adoptive children and matched, biological children to estimate the genetic and environmental effect of years of mothers' and fathers' education on children's verbal intelligence (VIQ), as assessed by knowledge of vocabulary words. Adoptive and biological adolescent children in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) were matched for sex, age, parental education, and ethnicity. The adolescents all resided with two parents. Structural equation modeling was employed using Mx to estimate the genetic and transmissible environmental components of the correlation between parental education and children's VIQ. The mother-child and father-child correlations in biological families were .41 and .36, respectively, vs .16 and .18 in adoptive families. As suggested by these correlations, both genetic and shared environmental influences were statistically significant in the Mx models. We conclude that parental education exerts a modest shared environmental effect, explaining no more than 3 to 4% of the variation in verbal intelligence. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 2000 Adoption study nationallicence verbal IQ nationallicence heritability nationallicence shared environment nationallicence Neiss Michelle Division of Family Studies and Human Development, University of Arizona, Campus Box 210033, 85721, Tucson, Arizona aut Rowe David Division of Family Studies and Human Development, University of Arizona, Campus Box 210033, 85721, Tucson, Arizona aut Behavior Genetics Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 30/6(2000-11-01), 487-495 0001-8244 30:6<487 2000 30 10519 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010254918997 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010254918997 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Neiss Michelle Division of Family Studies and Human Development, University of Arizona, Campus Box 210033, 85721, Tucson, Arizona aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rowe David Division of Family Studies and Human Development, University of Arizona, Campus Box 210033, 85721, Tucson, Arizona aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Behavior Genetics Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 30/6(2000-11-01), 487-495 0001-8244 30:6<487 2000 30 10519 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer