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Title: Socioeconomic Status and School Grades: Placing their Association in Broader Context in a Sample of Biological and Adoptive Families

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2007

Abstract: SES has long interested researchers investigating school achievement. Its effects are often addressed by studying predictors of achievement in economically disadvantaged samples living primarily in biological families, confounding genetic and environmental influences. Little is known about SES's purely environmental effects. We measured them in 617 adoptive and biological families, adjusting for sample restriction of SES range. Controlling for gender, parenting, parental expectations for educational attainment (PEEA), IQ, engagement in school, and genetic and shared environmental influences on sibling pairs, SES still made a small but significant nonshared environmental contribution to school grades. IQ, PEEA, and SEE; had collinear associations with school grades, as did engagement and parenting. The associations of IQ and engagement with school grades were largely independent of each other. The link between PEEA and IQ was stronger in adoptive than biological offspring. We discuss the implications of these findings.

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Authors: Iacono, William G; Johnson, Wendy; McGue, Matthew

Periodical (Full): Intelligence

Issue: 6

Volume: 35

Pages: 526-541

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